The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen

The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

by Joanna Schaffhausen

A chilling tale of suspense for fans of Julia Heaberlin. Fourteen years ago, teenager Ellery Hathaway was victim number seventeen in the grisly murder spree of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. She was the only one who lived.

Now Coben is safely behind bars, and Ellery has a new identity in a sleepy town where bike theft makes the newspapers. But each July for the last three years, locals have been disappearing. Then Ellery receives strange messages hinting that the culprit knows exactly what happened to her all those years ago. When she tries to raise the alarm, no one will listen, and terrified she may be next, Ellery must turn to the one person who might believe her story...

Reviewed by readingwithwrin on

2 of 5 stars

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This was a purely cover read for me.

Also, it seemed like everyone else was reading/taking pictures of this one on bookstagram.
Sadly for me, this book fell flat. I had so much anxiety while reading it, and while it might have been from it being finals week/midterms, I feel like it was more likely due to the fact that this book kept throwing things at us before we got answers. I was able to figure it out before the end of the book sadly and it was just kind of meh to me. It wasn't satisfying at all. I'm also a person who needs to like the characters, and by the end, I didn't like any of them if we're being honest.
I did like how we had flashbacks to what had happened in the past, and how things were connecting in the detective's minds. If I could have just had the first half of the book, I would have liked this story more, some how in the last half I went from enjoying the book to just finding it not so great. I didn't hate this one, but I didn't like it or love it.

Did anyone else feel this way about this book?

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