Mattie and Maya are cousins, their mum's being twins however a main theme in the book is how unstable a home Maya has. Maya's father is always away on an adventure trying to find out what extravagant idea he dreams up and then brings home but never pursues and so he remains jobless whilst Maya's mum is her only stable parent in her life whilst she has no male attention from her father, she turns to caring older Jay.
Mattie quite simply and understandably, plays the worried friend and concerned cousin role. She eventually figures out where her cousin keeps disappearing off to when she no longer catches the bus to school with her or goes to her friends in the school holiday's and decides to tell her mum what's happening until thankfully, a huge secret about Jay comes out at school.
Maya is a perfect example of how situations which could've happened as she was clouded with a strong list for this unattainable elder boy, when really, Mattie was right to act how she did being concerned despite Maya's anger and disagreement at the start.
I really enjoyed this book and praise it for raising the issue of the age gap in younger years and the danger that is posed there and so educates younger readers of target audience at what could happen in real life not just in a book.
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