as the Maggies had sent her a text that implied that Amelia had been having sex with Ian. The book ends with Kate beginning to come to terms with her grief, Zadie getting sent to a school for troubled girls, and the disbanding of the secret societies forever. Reception Since its release Reconstructing Amelia has received positive reviews and drawn comparisons to Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel Gone Girl and the works of Jodi Picoult. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette and Publishers Weekly both reviewed the work, with the latter stating that "Fans of literary thrillers will enjoy the novel’s dark mood and clever form, even if the mystery doesn’t entirely hold together." Of comparisons to Flynn's work, Entertainment Weekly felt that the book was "this year’s Gone Girl" while the New York Journal of Books felt that it more closely resembled "Megan Abbott’s Dare Me or Carol Goodwin’s [sic] Arcadia Falls". References External links Novels about suicide Novels about bullying 2013 American novels Novels about secret societies 2013 debut novels HarperCollins books