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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
Gotta give her credit- I finished it in a car ride, and my interest was definitely piqued
BUT this book's "twist" had the rare combination of 1. Not playing by the rules so you 'can't guess it,' and 2. Being stupidly easy to guess
It was soooo close to being good. Sooooo close.
BUT this book's "twist" had the rare combination of 1. Not playing by the rules so you 'can't guess it,' and 2. Being stupidly easy to guess
It was soooo close to being good. Sooooo close.
So I sorta saw the plot twist coming, but not entirely and I was blindsided. It was really good, but I think Before I Fall had more of an impact relatability-wise than this one. It was a little confusing and you really had to look at the dates and stuff but I liked it. It just made you think.
Couldn't figure out if the twist was supposed to be figured out early on in the book or not. Once I figured it out about halfway through, I lost interest.
It’s been a long time since a book has made me this angry, but here I am. This book was HORRIBLE. I usually love Oliver’s writing, but this one was such a lackluster YA novel, I hate that I wasted time reading it. The story was boring to start, and very slow, but I stuck with it because it was being reviewed as so dark and twisted. Spoiler alert: it’s not that dark, and the twist has been done before - and done better. And almost overdone. I went into the book thinking “Ok, this is what happened” but was shown time and time again that it wasn’t the case. Then the “twist” is that - oh, yeah, it actually IS that, but I misled you the whole time. And it’s fine if a twist is truly something that you kind of just overlooked, or something that takes you by surprise, but when it’s something that completely obliterates EVERYTHING you’ve read up to that point…that’s when I call it crappy storytelling. I hope this is just a one-off and Oliver won’t start writing like this - style- AND story-wise. Like I said, I used to really enjoy her books and writing style but this one has completely soured me.
This is a book that makes me think I'm too old to get anything out of realistic YA fiction anymore. All of my teenage demons must be exorcised finally, because I got nothing out of reading this.
WOW!! Excellent read!!! It was interesting all along, but then the last bit blew me away!!! It reminded me of "we were liars".
I thought it was confusing. I couldn't keep the sisters straight at first. Meh.
Uma grande bosta e este livro acabou comigo. Lauren, te odeio, mulher. Simplesmente não acredito. Vou passar o dia inteiro lembrando desta bosta e torcendo para não me acabar.
Leiam.
Leiam.
Review also posted at Young Adult Hollywood.
Vanishing Girls is without a doubt my favorite Lauren Oliver book so far.
In this novel, follow the story of sisters, Dara and Nick. They are inseparable until a car accident put a rift between the two of them. After, the disappearance of a nine-year-old girl, Dara vanished. And Nick is convinced, maybe the two disappearances are somehow connected to each other.
There is nothing new about the concept of this book. I’ve read a handful of stories before that have the same structure, but that is necessarily not a bad thing. Because Oliver did a magnificent job in keeping her readers guessing. This is a well-crafted mystery-thriller book. That have plenty of twists and turn. There are a lot of things I haven’t anticipated.
Vanishing Girls is a character driven book. I have sisters and I love books that gravitate towards family, especially the dysfunctional kind. The relationship between all the characters is the core of the story itself. And Oliver skillfully created the unmistakable tension between the sisters and their parents.
Prepare your tissues everyone, because this book will prompt you to reevaluate your life choices.
Vanishing Girls is life jarring, profound and a poignant read. Fans of We Were Liars will surely devour this.
Vanishing Girls is without a doubt my favorite Lauren Oliver book so far.
In this novel, follow the story of sisters, Dara and Nick. They are inseparable until a car accident put a rift between the two of them. After, the disappearance of a nine-year-old girl, Dara vanished. And Nick is convinced, maybe the two disappearances are somehow connected to each other.
There is nothing new about the concept of this book. I’ve read a handful of stories before that have the same structure, but that is necessarily not a bad thing. Because Oliver did a magnificent job in keeping her readers guessing. This is a well-crafted mystery-thriller book. That have plenty of twists and turn. There are a lot of things I haven’t anticipated.
Vanishing Girls is a character driven book. I have sisters and I love books that gravitate towards family, especially the dysfunctional kind. The relationship between all the characters is the core of the story itself. And Oliver skillfully created the unmistakable tension between the sisters and their parents.
Prepare your tissues everyone, because this book will prompt you to reevaluate your life choices.
Vanishing Girls is life jarring, profound and a poignant read. Fans of We Were Liars will surely devour this.
This book can be summed up in a single word: disturbing. It had one of those endings that makes you angry because you didn't see it coming. Without revealing what happened I would just say that the book reminded me a lot of Pete Hautman's book Invisible.