Reading response #4: Wake

         This book starts of slow and the first chapter starts off with a scene of Thea and Penn. It describes the smell of blood that Thea can smell on Penn. Knowing it is late the girls must go but not before Penn gets what she wants, because after all she always gets what she wants. In the second chapter Gemma, Alex and Harper are introduced to us. Harper is Gemma's older sister, but Gemma is always described as the prettier one. Harper and Alex have been best friends for a long time, but recently Harper has secretly grown feelings for Alex. The only problem is it seems little sister and Alex have developed feelings for each other.  One night when Gemma's car breaks down before she can get her nightly swim in, Alex offers to give her a ride down to the bay. Alex agrees to get in the water with Gemma and race. Gemma being be the swimmer in town, of course wins. The two rest against a rock, and when Alex takes Gemma's hand neither move. Until the sounds and shadows of Penn, Thea, and Lexi, the three mysterious tourist girls. No one knows where they came from, but the fourth girl has suddenly disappeared. They are outsiders and they do not belong.
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" Penn, Lexi, and Thea were sitting in a booth by the window at Pearl's. The other two girls were sipping their drinks, behaving like normal customers, but Penn stared out the glass, her dark eyes locked on harper. Her full lips turned up in a smile.. She put the car in drive and sped off so quickly she nearly clipped another driver, and that was very unlike her. AS she drove down to the docks, slowing her racing heart, Harper once again thought how much better it would be if Penn would just leave." This quote is meaning full because it really shows how Penn behaves, and how much affect she has on other people, almost like magic.

This is a picture of what Capri is supposed to look like. When Gemma and Alex go swimming, the cove is described as a pool of water surrounded by rock, cut off from the rest of the bay.