It’s early, coming up on the end of March, but this book is in the running for my top book of the year. Everyone I know who has read this book has told me it is amazing. Everyone I know was telling me the truth, and now I keep recommending it to everyone else.
One important caveat first, I do NOT think this book really works as an audiobook. Each chapter you are jumping characters and timelines and I could not follow it for the life of me, but the minute I got a physical copy I was hooked. If you listen to audiobooks one chapter at a time it would probably work out okay, but if like me on audio you pick-up and put down at random, it’s tough to remember when you are, and which character you are following. So my recommendation is to get it on your local library hold lists (which is likely very very many people deep) or buy a physical copy.
It’s 1975 and a camper has gone missing from summer camp, and time is running out to find her. Has she been taken? Did she leave of her own volition and meet a violent end? Who, if anyone is to blame? Complicating the story is that she is the second child in her family to go missing from the camp property about a decade before, which is also the home of their sprawling mansion. So this isn’t just one simply mystery, but multiple mysteries to unravel over time with secrets around every corner.
The story evoke memories for me of Dirty Dancing and the Jason Voorhies. This book is neither as romantic or as scary as either of those, but the timeline and summer camp were spot on and I felt like a really could visualize the world Moore was creating. There are SO many misdirects and possibilities, I was in the dark until the very end, and nothing quite wrapped up like I thought it would.
IT IS SO GOOD I AM SAYING THIS IN ALL CAPS GO GET IT RIGHT NOW.