Malinda Lo’s A Line in the Dark starts off as a young adult novel with a fairly normal plotline. Girl is gay, girl is in love with best friend, best friend is oblivious, best friend starts dating someone else, girl is hurt and tension ensues. Now here’s where things get a bit complicated: girl’s best friend’s girlfriend’s best friend goes missing. Now all three girls are involved in a missing persons case with a plot twist ending that no one will expect.