Deviant Book Review by Audrey

Deviant by Helen Fitzgerald is a book that takes you on a journey with Abigail Thom. This book is a great read, Ms. Fitzgerald is able to take you into the moment and keep you reading until the end.

Abigail has been living in the state (Glasgow) care since she was nine when Nieve (her mom’s best friend) died, today she was brought to the office and told her birth mother had died the previous evening at a local hospital and the nurse had a letter for her. Abigail was curious--her mother was so close but had never sought for her. Upon retrieving the letter and reading it she was stunned... Her father, was alive and lived in Los Angeles and she was to go live with him. She had a sister too, and they both have $25000 from there mother.

Abigail spends the next 24 hours helping a girl from her group home, she gets a passport, and sneaks out to get to the airport to fly and meet her father. She encounters some difficulty at the airport--they are going to send her back to Glasgow, until her father Grahame Johnstone pulled some strings to keep her here. Upon arriving at her father’s home she meets her sister Becky and her stepmother, Melanie.  The next few days are filled with a lot of changes for Abigail.  Melanie signs her up for driving lessons and gives her a welcome home party with all of her Dad’s friends.

Becky,  Stick, Joe, and Abigail go out her first night in LA.  They take her out to a billboard sign and have Abigail be the lookout while Joe tags the sign.  She is petrified of being caught and being sent back to Glasgow. She learns during the night that Becky is a very passionate person that leads a double life.  Becky is the perfect daughter when she needs to be --but also has a lot of the free spirit her birth mother did.  She liked to drink and smoke pot and she was part of an underground that was searching for answers to a question that she would not share with Abigail she doesn’t think she would understand.

I enjoyed the many twists and turns  that continued to keep me the reader entertained.  There was so much involvement of real everyday circumstances that makes it believable.  Drugs,  juvenile delinquent behaviors, the lifestyle of the rich, a corrupt group of adults and a passionate group of teens that are sure something is wrong and they will do whatever they have too, to expose the wrongs.  If you are looking for that book that pulls you in-this is it.  I rate it a 5 out of 6.