SYNOPSIS: Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's too late. Rating: 3/5
This book was quite enjoyable to read once it got going properly. It was a bit slow at times, mainly the first half of the novel was just background story and getting to know the characters. Nick was an alright character, though she seemed a bit too perfect, but edgy. She didn't like her father's new girlfriend for no particular reason at all, apart from maybe the fact that she had lipstick on her teeth sometimes? Not sure about this. The mystery itself was intriguing and pulled me in all the way. The search for Madeleine was realistic and I wanted more of that. I spent most of the book waiting for Dara to finally go missing to deepen the mystery, but that took ages and only really got going in the last 100 pages or so. Fortunately the filler parts weren't too boring, but I'd have liked more mystery over all this background story, though I understand that the author wanted to have a proper world to set it in. The setting then, was pretty cool. The theme park had this creepy ride that someone died on once and allegedly it's haunted by her now. This was creepy and cool, and the victim's father still showing up at the ride occasionally gave it that extra bit of spookiness. The ending was alright. I half liked it, half didn't. What I'm going to say without spoilers is that I liked the Dara resolution, but the Madeleine resolution was quite disappointing to me. If you've read this book, please let me know what you thought as I'd really like to hear other people's opinions! Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22465597-vanishing-girls Amazon: www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Girls-Lauren-Oliver/dp/0062224115
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