📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 All the Missing Girls
AUTHOR: Megan Miranda @meganlmiranda
Publisher: Simon & Schuster @simonandschuster
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: June 28, 2016
The Review 📚 All the Missing Girls
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I really enjoyed the 2 newer books by Megan Miranda so I have started working through her backlists.
💜 What I liked:
- Points for originality! This book has an interesting structure where you start on the 14th day and work your way backward so by the time you get to the beginning (chronologically) you have a better understanding of what happens. Some really interesting twists by the time you circle back to day 14.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- While I applaud the risk she took with the format, the execution didn’t work for me. It was hard to keep track of the clues. So much so that I should have been keeping notes. This made it a little tedious to read.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤪
💭 3 Reasons to Read:
- 1. If you like unique story styles, definitely check out this one
- 2. Pretty shocking twists
- 3. Clues that are solid hints
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Nicolette returns to her childhood home to sell her dad’s house, and in the process tries to understand her friend’s disappearance while another goes missing.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary 📚 All the Missing Girls
Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse.
It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.
The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.
Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.
Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.