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maryleong 's review for:
If I Disappear
by Eliza Jane Brazier
(1.5/5) The premise is a lot of fun: Sera, a thirty-something with a mediocre life, obsessively uses a true crime podcast as her one escape. To the extent that she's developed an unhinged parasocial relationship with the podcast host, Rachel. When the host goes missing, she decides to embark on this absurd investigation, believing that Rachel has been leaving her clues in her podcast all along. Cue unreliable narrator who is completely batshit insane, and a novel that's full of drama, right?
Wrong! How do you make a book like this boring? And the twist at the end? Totally didn't work for me. We never get to connect with Rachel aside from through Sera's incredibly troubled perspective, so it had no emotional resonance for me. I've heard that the novel Sadie does a similar concept, but perhaps more convincingly, so I'm excited to give that a read.
Wrong! How do you make a book like this boring? And the twist at the end? Totally didn't work for me. We never get to connect with Rachel aside from through Sera's incredibly troubled perspective, so it had no emotional resonance for me. I've heard that the novel Sadie does a similar concept, but perhaps more convincingly, so I'm excited to give that a read.