Olive's Ocean

In the book “Olive’s Ocean” by Kevin Henkes, Olive Barstow, a former classmate of Martha recently got hit by a car while riding her bike on a street named Monroe Street. . “Olive Barstow is dead, she’d been hit by a car on Monroe Street while riding her bike weeks ago. That’s all that Martha knew.” She and Martha Boyle were never really good friends even though they easily could have been. Olive was always so sweet to Martha, but she was never the same to Olive. Olive was very shy, quiet, and conservative girl that always kept to her herself and wasn’t social at all. Olive’s mother gave Martha a note out of olive’s journal one day after the accident. It explained how Olive desperately wanted to be an author, and be the youngest author to ever write an emotional novel, also it said that she would love to become great friends with Martha that year because she looked up to her. In the summer, Martha goes on a vacation to her grandparents’ house, they live by a beach. During that time alone with her grandparents, she learns that she and Olive shared a deep secret. At first, this book was a little confusing and mysterious but then it gets easier to understand , and overall I think it is a great book. This story took place near an ocean, at a vacation house with her grandparents. I think the setting makes everything so much more dramatic and realistic. Some of the book is quite boring to be honest and it made me want to stop reading at times. I even skipped a few pages but most of the book is really intense and it feels like you are in the book. I would definitely recommend this book to people that like mysteries, because I would say that is the genre of the novel, and it would intrest people that are into that kind of stuff.