It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.
The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.
Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.
Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.
As Corinne would say, this book was a total "mindfuck"! Holy shit, it was GOOD!
All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda is told sort of out of order... there's a beginning, then it starts going backward for two weeks, then we're brought back to the beginning, then it goes forward a few months. There are also flashbacks to 10 years ago.
Sound confusing? Fret not, dear reader. Part of this book's awesomeness is that Miranda navigates this unorthodox storytelling expertly, slowly unraveling the plot and keeping the reader
Like The Girl on the Train, you find yourself accusing characters, retracting your accusations, accusing others, and then when the lightbulb goes on... you have nothing to say but, "Whoa!"
Twists, turns, lies, betrayals, secrets, love, dreams, and more are loaded into an awesome story.
None of the characters are without flaw, but all are relatable. By 50% I had alternately fallen in love with and then later hated most of the characters.
I don't want to give away too much of the plot, because Miranda reveals it on her terms, at her pace, like a mutha' effin' boss.
I'm calling it now: This book is going to be huge.
READ IT. It comes out on June 28, 2016. You can thank me later!
Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!
My Rating: 5/5
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