Monday, August 29, 2011

Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones

Blink and Caution are two teenage runaways in Toronto. The story is told in alternating viewpoints, with Blink's segments in a strange second-person present tense.

Blink is getting by day to day by stealing breakfast leftovers from room-service trays in a fancy hotel when he accidentally observes a faked kidnapping of a wealthy CEO. Blink becomes obsessed with the kidnapping he witnessed, and the finds himself drawn the daughter who keeps calling the cell phone he lifted from the hotel room.

Caution is on the run from an abusive and possessive drug-dealer boyfriend when she meets Blink. She sees him purchasing a train ticket and thinks he will be an easy mark, but finds herself strangely drawn to him and to helping him.

To solve the mystery, the teens travel to a remote cabin, where they find that they are in over their heads, and it will take all of their cunning and street smarts to make it out alive.

Very intense teen/adult thriller.  I had read reviews and it looked really interesting and I was not disappointed.  Plus who can not want to read a book jacket with bullet holes.