The plot is the overarching thing that drives this book, but the characters, the goings on within their lives, and their individual involvement in the case add so much more and help make this such a compelling story.Įlla is the main narrator and her POV is told in the first person. In fact, it probably made me connect with the story even more, and the short chapters meant that I was not kept waiting too long in my desperation to find out what happened next! This book rotates between four main POVs, which definitely seems like a lot, but each individual storyline was so rich with content and suspense that I didn’t mind. It makes for a very good take on the missing person trope, which is quite common in recent thrillers. Sometimes this can have a negative effect, but here is works perfectly, and offers the ideal platform to get to know each character – all connected to Anna’s disappearance – extremely well. We see a lot of books that are told from multiple POVs. Not only did it present such a fascinating and captivating mystery, the character building is magnificently detailed and nuanced, which is unlike so many other, more exclusively plot-driven, books in this genre. In fact, it only accelerated the more I neared the end. Right from the very first page, I was entirely gripped, and that feeling never wavered. Almost everything about it made for highly impressive reading. It consumed me to the extent that by the end it almost had me in a trance, such was the tension and oceanic depth of this intricate, multi-faceted thriller. Someone knows where Anna is-and they’re not telling. Anna’s best friend, Sarah, hasn’t been telling the whole truth about what really happened that night-and her parents have been keeping secrets of their own. Then an anniversary appeal reveals that Anna’s friends and family might have something to hide. Someone is sending her threatening letters-letters that make her fear for her life. Ella is wracked with guilt over what she failed to do, and she’s not the only one who can’t forget. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls-beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard-has disappeared.Ī year later, Anna is still missing. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it-until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. I read this book as a buddy read with my friend Gem Glimpsing Gembles, and I have to thank her once again for our lengthy, insightful discussions. Trigger warnings: Missing person storyline, sexual assault
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