Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

Vanishing Girls

by Lauren Oliver

Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's too late.

In this edgy and compelling novel, Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue, loss, and suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves, and each other.

Reviewed by ibeforem on

3 of 5 stars

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This book was good, but not rave-worthy for me. It's also a hard one to discuss without spoiling, but I will do my best.

The good part is, I was interested in the story. I wanted to know what was going on between Nick and her sister, what happened that night of the car crash. I wanted to know how the missing girl tied in to everything. So the interest kept me reading. But it took an awful long time to get to any sort of action. I felt like a lot of the middle of the book really didn't go anywhere.

And then, the twist. Frankly, I feel like this particular sort of twist is way overdone by now. It is similar to another very popular YA book from last summer. Granted, there was an extra sort of twist on this twist, but it still felt very expected once it was revealed. I was like "Oh, we're doing this again?"

So overall, it generally kept me interested and reading, but I was disappointed in the ending.

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