A review by tessa_talks_books
If I Go Missing by Leslie Wolfe

4.5

 

One-word review: Robust

Emojis: 🧐🤯🫣

Rating:  4.5🌟s

My thoughts:

If I Go Missing by Leslie Wolfe is an edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller that will appeal to true crime junkies and thriller lovers alike. Alana, the main character, advocates for the If I Go Missing notebook - a place to compile facts about yourself that will enable the police to bypass legal hurdles to find you faster in the event of a kidnapping. When two people close to Alana - one a child - go missing, everything is called into question - her advocacy, her story, her husband - everything.

Told in the first person, I loved that Alana was a self-proclaimed unreliable narrator. She lies, and she admits it. This makes her just as much of a suspect as anyone else. I enjoyed having to dig to find the truths among the lies. That’s as much fun to me as finding the clues. And to my delight, there are plenty of both, along with distracting red herrings, in the story.

I also loved the pacing. It’s fast from start to finish due to the narration style and the timeline changes, as Alana lets us in on relevant scenes from her past. Luckily, she never stayed there too long, or the pace would have slowed. Instead, she tells the current and past timelines in robust bite-sized pieces that I thoroughly savored while trying to figure out who did what and why.

Of course, I can’t say much, but you will thank me for my brevity once you read the book - I guarantee it!