Outer Banks: Lights Out: Alyssa Sheinmel

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The book moves along very well, with Lawler’s style crisp and no nonsense, yet underlying everything is a subtle sense of humor. The last thing JJ and John B want to do is spend their week watching Kooks in action, so they plan a fishing getaway to the notoriously dangerous Frying Pan Shoals—nicknamed “Graveyard of the Atlantic” for good reason. Thirty years later, the group gathers again for a week at Ginger's place at Nag's Head to get caught up and reminisce about old times.

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There’s a lot of detail in this book offering readers an opportunity to learn about what life was really like on the Outer Banks.Like having treasure-hunting fathers who have gone missing, bad guys chasing them, and not knowing whom to trust. It is a story that begins in college, where the narrator comes to a small Southern college and is befriended by a group of girls that leave an indelible mark.

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I always enjoy getting to know her characters and locations and have taken several East coast vacations largely due to the interest in the area that her books left with me. But hear me out, the Pogues are literally looking for gold and they spend the majority of their time sailing around the Outer Banks. I did not read the first book of the three, but it didn't impact my enjoyment of either this novel or the one before it.

After a storm rolls in, Savannah winds up abandoned by her Touron boyfriend and the three must find shelter in an abandoned lighthouse - where smugglers also decide to ride out the storm. David Stick passed away in 2009 but he still exerts an outsized influence on the Outer Banks literature.

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This one is probably my favorite of her books, especially since I am from the Outer Banks and know exactly of the raw beauty she speaks. I'm so glad that I did, because I'm truly surprised by how much I liked this book, and for all the reasons that it appealed to me when I first read the reviews back in my Davis days. Over the years he gathered quite a number of those tales together—some of them true, some of them maybe true, and some of them…well…good stories. At the end, the one true friend is the one who would risk your displeasure and her own life to drag you out of the pretend world you mired yourself in. Alyssa Sheinmel is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels for young adults, including The Castle School (for Troubled Girls), What Kind of Girl, A Danger to Herself and Others,and Faceless.Ballance is careful to not draw any conclusions in his writing, allowing readers to decide for themselves what has been lost and gained.