The Vanishing Season

Girls started vanishing in the fall.

For Maggie Larsen, the town of Gill Creek is only a stopgap before college and freedom. Until she meets Pauline and Liam.

What starts as an uneventful year suddenly changes. Someone is killing teenage girls, and the town reels from the tragedy. As Maggie's and Pauline's worlds collide and change around them, they will both experience love and loss.

And by the end of the book, only one of them will survive

Good morning, good evening or good night everyone! I hope your day is going amazing so far! Today I have a mystery/YA novel review, hope you like it!

I am not going to lie, I went into this book absolutely skeptical about it. Basically it has such a cliche story, the girl who moves to a new town, meets this weirdos and girls start to disappear. tell me you have never read or watched a movie or TV show about this and I will not believe you, we all already know the many different ways the story can end yet I decided to pick it up quite excited and intrigued about it.

I was absolutely disappointed about this one and not just that but also confused as to how the hell did it finished and why it had such a weird ending. I am obviously not going to spoil anything here, but if you have read the book, scroll all the way down and you will find my thoughts on it including spoilers.

To me, it felt like a 300 pages long book in which nothing happened, and whenever there was an actual move in some of the relationships of the characters it all went back and everything was undone if that makes any sense haha.

I didn't liked the characters, didn't liked the main character nor de love interest, he and she felt plain to me and like there was no background story. I felt like you never really got to know the boy and his father (who was the weirdo in town), who was a character that I was really interested in knowing more about him (the father) since he had quite a personality yet he did not have any lines.

As for the main character, Maggie, I didn't understand her. For me it is essential to get to know the environment and growing up of the characters in order to understand and feel them, like to know the present you gotta know the past and even if there were a couple references, you really didn't know much about her and her past live back in the previous city that she lived in before she moved.

Like I said before, the plot was absolutely plain and there was so much that did not make sense AT ALL. I can't say much about it without spoiling so just know that you are going to finish the book even more confused than how you started it.

So for all of this, maybe it just wasn't the book for me, I think other people had enjoyed it, but since this is a personal review. Also if some of you have read this book and feel like i havent understand the concept of it, pease let me know!

SPOLIER ALERT!!!!!!

Alright lets get into it. The incredible cliff hanger in the end like, the book was about girls disparaging and there was no murderer found?! like HOW I don't understand that, what is literally the point of it all then? The plain and weird relationship between them?

Yeah, this boy who is absolutely in love with a stunning girl but when she leaves because there is murderer on the loose, he gets bored and lonely and hooks up with her best friend, tells her he loves her but when the stunning girl comes back, suddenly he realized that he had loved her for the entirety of his life so fuck the other girl, because she is not as pretty. Sorry but that's how it felt to me.

Also the fact that there was a murderer out and about, killing teenage girls is absolutely scary right? You wouldn't wanna even leave the house right? Well it makes sense that Maggie went running ALONE and also that her parents casually went away leaving her ALONE, it blew my mind.

1/5⭐️

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I grew up moving all over the world, but I consider my childhood home a lake town in northern New Jersey where I used to spend way too much time walking in the woods with my cat, watching the clouds, and making things up. I've loved writing and reading about strange and mythical things since I can remember. I’m deeply drawn to the magic in real things and am always trying to capture it with what I write. 

I began my career as a book editor at HarperCollins in NYC before starting to write full-time in various nooks and crannies around the world. These days I spend most of my time in Asheville, NC, where I live with my husband, our son, our persnickety dog, a fish, and a baby-on-the-way who apparently loves potato chips. I have a BA in British Literature from the University of Maryland and hold an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. 

Besides writing and reading, I love to cook, knit, hike, run, bike, make Claymation videos, and attempt to play the banjo. 

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