Published by: HarperTeen, July 1st 2014
Genre: YA, Contemporary, Mystery, Paranormal
Pages: 272
Format: Ebooks
Source: HarperTeen via Edelweiss (thank you!!)
Girls started vanishing in the fall, and now winter's come to lay a white sheet over the horror. Door County, it seems, is swallowing the young, right into its very dirt. From beneath the house on Water Street, I've watched the danger swell.
The residents know me as the noises in the house at night, the creaking on the stairs. I'm the reflection behind them in the glass, the feeling of fear in the cellar. I'm tied—it seems—to this house, this street, this town.
I'm tied to Maggie and Pauline, though I don't know why. I think it's because death is coming for one of them, or both.
All I know is that the present and the past are piling up, and I am here to dig.I am looking for the things that are buried.
From bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson comes a friendship story bound in snow and starlight, a haunting mystery of love, betrayal, redemption, and the moments that we leave behind.
Characters ★★★☆☆
Girls started vanishing in the fall, and now winter's come to lay a white sheet over the horror. Door County, it seems, is swallowing the young, right into its very dirt. From beneath the house on Water Street, I've watched the danger swell.
The residents know me as the noises in the house at night, the creaking on the stairs. I'm the reflection behind them in the glass, the feeling of fear in the cellar. I'm tied—it seems—to this house, this street, this town.
I'm tied to Maggie and Pauline, though I don't know why. I think it's because death is coming for one of them, or both.
All I know is that the present and the past are piling up, and I am here to dig.I am looking for the things that are buried.
From bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson comes a friendship story bound in snow and starlight, a haunting mystery of love, betrayal, redemption, and the moments that we leave behind.
The Vanishing Season is a stark yet heartwarming tale of friendship, love, and death.
I requested and read this immediately because I was in a huge reading slump and I needed something entirely unique and unlike anything I'd read before to get me out of it. The Vanishing Season was exactly what I needed.
Set in Door County, a setting that is strangely familiar despite me never having been to America, this book somehow manages to be unsettling and lovely at the same time, while always being vivid in imagery and gut-wrenchingly raw with emotion.
Maggie is a likeable protagonist, though at times I disliked her. I'll be honest - I actually hated the characters as much as I loved them, but I'm that way with people in real life, and it was because Maggie, Pauline, and Liam felt so real and authentic that I connected with them in that way.
The plot of the murders and the girls disappearances kept me guessing and intrigued. It was pretty obvious that one of the girls was going to die, though I couldn't tell who. And I will say - it's entirely misleading. It doesn't happen the way you think it will happen. And it is all the more heartbreaking for it.
I cried at the end, and I could not stop crying no matter how hard I tried. I didn't think I was attached to the characters, didn't think I would be affected in such a strong and emotional way. Jodi Lynn Anderson has a way of storytelling that is so subtle that I didn't realise she'd captured my heart until it was broken.
I was surprisingly torn between three and five stars. Parts of this book were good, and parts of this book were incredible and moving and just made me ache. Because I'm indecisive, I've given it four stars.
Characters ★★★☆☆
Setting/world building ★★★☆☆
Writing Style ★★★★☆
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