Book Blurb:
Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.
But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meagre clues to find him.
When West McCray—a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America—overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.
My Review:
4 Out Of 5 Stars
Genre: Heart-Wrenching, Mystery, Suspense, Teen--
The delivery of the story was really unique, unlike anything I have read before. The book alternates chapters between Sadie in the present and the Podcast and investigation roughly about five months in the future. The audiobook version was really cool since the podcast chapters had a full cast to narrate and it really felt like a podcast with interviews and calls all woven into it. The way the book was written really made the investigation feel real, Sadie was a real girl that was being searched for. Everything about this book is something that could so very easily be true, making it even easier to get sucked into the drama.
We start the book already in the middle of the action with not a lot of backstory or explanation as to what is going on. What we do know- 13 year old Mattie was murdered, Sadie disappeared, Sadie is looking for a man, and a podcast investigator was asked to look into Sadie's disappearance. Yep, those pieces did not really seem to fit together at the beginning but as the book progresses everything starts coming together and the large picture is formed. It was so hard to put the book down because I wanted justice and answers and I wanted what Sadie wanted while at the same time I wanted to interfere and stop all the terrible situations that Sadie encountered. But, as per life, sometimes we do not get all the answers we are looking for and sometimes the truth is even worse.
Disclaimer here- pretty much every aspect of this story deals with child abuse and while it is not descriptive, the emotions and after effects are very real. This was a hard book to read since at times it was so dark- but I think this is something that needs to be addressed and the author did it in a very powerful way.
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