Talk:Penpal/@comment-24159903-20131209142001

Veronicas death and her stolen phone seems to me too close to the standard "then who was phone?" gag.

The end was a perfect turn of the screw but destroyed the whole buildup of Josh's disappearance. In the mind of the reader(me!) he was dead from the moment when he disappeared and the ending sadly muddled that storyline.

His return from the "dead" would be even more horrific given the years of captivity and the destruction of his family by his captor.

10/10 still.