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A review by labunnywtf
The Stranger Game by Cylin Busby
4.0
You're a preteen, with an older, prettier sister who is unpleasant at best, cruel at worst. She makes your life miserable day in, day out. And then one day she goes missing. Police, media, everyone gets involved. Your parents are panicked and heart broken, people at school treat you differently ("The girl with the missing sister"). But four years down the line, it's almost normal.
And then she comes back. Is she changed? Have you changed? What is life going to be like, re-adjusting to being a family of four again?
Where has she been? What happened to her? She seems...different.
Is she really your sister?
It's been a really long time since I liked a book so much I continued listening to the audiobook while at work. This is an incredibly easy read, but it's not fluff. You may be expecting a story where, at the end, the two sisters have reconciled and realized what really matters in life, and we all have our Full House ending.
Or maybe you expect the opposite. That by the end, we learn that Sarah was an imposter all along, and she gets led out of the house in handcuffs, while the real Sarah is still out there somewhere, lost. And the family is destroyed anew.
It's not the finding out that makes this book so delectable. It's the getting there. This is so well written. You get incredibly invested in these two sisters, in their life, in Sarah regaining her life and Nico learning who she is with her sister back. In finding out What Is Going On With Sarah.
Such a good read. So, so good.
And then she comes back. Is she changed? Have you changed? What is life going to be like, re-adjusting to being a family of four again?
Where has she been? What happened to her? She seems...different.
Is she really your sister?
It's been a really long time since I liked a book so much I continued listening to the audiobook while at work. This is an incredibly easy read, but it's not fluff. You may be expecting a story where, at the end, the two sisters have reconciled and realized what really matters in life, and we all have our Full House ending.
Or maybe you expect the opposite. That by the end, we learn that Sarah was an imposter all along, and she gets led out of the house in handcuffs, while the real Sarah is still out there somewhere, lost. And the family is destroyed anew.
It's not the finding out that makes this book so delectable. It's the getting there. This is so well written. You get incredibly invested in these two sisters, in their life, in Sarah regaining her life and Nico learning who she is with her sister back. In finding out What Is Going On With Sarah.
Such a good read. So, so good.