The End of Everything by Megan Abbott

A novel about two friends growing up in suburban America and the strain on family relationships when one of them goes missing.  I didn't particularly like this book because it was very difficult to engage with the narrator, one of the girls, or indeed any of the other family members.  The dialogue reads in a very artificial way so the characters come across as very two dimensional.  Although the plot sounds exciting and it is dramatically told, it is not as compelling as I was expecting which makes the thinness of the writing style more noticeable.    A very average novel about friendship and family relationships.