WHEN

When by Victoria Laurie

ISBN:  978-1484700082
 
Publish Date:  January 13th 2015

Read Date: 05/21/2018 - 05/22/2018

 If you could look at someone and see the date they would die, what lengths would you go to save them.

For Maddie, that is life. Maddie has a gift, she can see the dates someone is going to die just by looking at them. She sees their numbers, small black numbers just hanging over their foreheads. She can read it on someones forehead in person, on tv and even in a picture. She has been able to see them since she was a small child. She knows this much, because she saw her fathers number. As she grew up, Maddie began to keep a notebook with all of the death dates she saw in it, she believed this help her to cope with her "gift".

Maddies father, a police officer, was gunned down on the date she had predicted as a small child. Her fathers death had sent her mother into a alcohol fueled depression, causing her to lose her nursing job, and the families income.

As a teenager to help out with the lack of income from her mother, Maddie began charging customers to read their death date. One of the customers has asked Maddie to read the death date of her young daughter, currently in the hospital battling cancer, but instead what catches maddies attention is the looming upcoming date of another child, a male, in the photograph the customer brought. Maddie made the choice to advise her customer of what she had seen. This naturally upset the customer, who stormed out and left.

As predicted on the date Maddie had given her customer, the young male disappeared. After a search returned the boys remains, the FBI began their investigation . With the date connection that maddie had given the murdered boys mother, Maddie was rocketed to the front line of suspects.

During the boys investigation, another teenager goes missing, this one a popular cheerleader from a town over. Maddie had also seen the cheerleaders death date. She had also been correct. She had also tried to warn the cheerleader. This lead to another investigation with Maddie front and center once again. Only this time, she had her best friend, Stubby, with her. Stubby knew what Maddie could see, he also knew the death date of the cheerleader because Stubby had a crush on her.

During the investigation of Stubby, the FBI agents found damning evidence to point to Stubby leading to his arrest.

Following Stubbys arrest, maddies secret makes it way out. The FBI seems to be intent on putting the murders on Maddie and Stubby.

The remaining chapters reveal who is at fault for the murders and the connection to Maddie. Not much can be further explained without spoilers.

Its a great read, at just over 320 pages it is also a fairly quick read !!!!!

Appropriate for teen readers also.