How to Find a Missing Girl
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4.5
Victoria Wlosok
"The voice that this generation's mystery readers have been waiting for...How to Find a Missing Girl is edge-of-your-seat compelling from beginning to end." —#1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sapphic detective agency as they seek the truth behind a growing trail of missing girls in small-town Louisiana. A year ago, beloved cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished without a trace. Devastated, her younger sister, Iris, launched her own investigation, but all she managed to do was scare off the police’s only lead and earn a stern warning: Once she turns eighteen, more meddling means prison-level consequences. Then, a year later, the unthinkable happens. Iris’s ex-girlfriend, Heather, goes missing, too—just after dropping the polarizing last episode of her true crime podcast all about Iris’s sister. This time, nothing will stop Iris and her amateur sleuthing agency from solving these disappearances. But with a suspicious detective watching her every move, an enemy-turned-friend-turned-maybe-more to contend with, and only thirty days until she turns eighteen, it’s a race against the clock for Iris to solve the most dangerous case of her life.
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Author
Victoria Wlosok
Pages
400
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published Date
2023-09-19
ISBN
031651182X 9780316511827
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"This book was promising, with an intriguing premise, but that made the end result that much more disappointing. I was hooked for 90% of it. The author was really good at building suspense and the plot was well crafted. Unfortunately, it fell apart in the final 10% of it. It was clear that the author didn’t plan the ending ahead of time and it just felt thrown together. Parts of it I predicted but it was well executed. If she had made the characters besides Iris, Sammy, Imani and Lea a little more fleshed out and less surface level, it could have really paid off. If anything, the ending just felt fake and garbled. Besides that, I hated that she had Iris and Lea end up together. The romantic relationship between them was so forced and came out of nowhere. There was no build up. Finally, I’ve never read AGGGTM but there were so many elements of this story that felt like it was copying it. Over all, this was an average read. Not bad, but it missed the mark."
Madeline Glanton
"A great addition to the true-crime inspired book genre (and LGBTQ+ books.)There were many unexpected moments, almost every chapter ends with a shocking moment. I liked the idea of a true crime podcast playing an actual part as a clue in the mystery (not just a character trying to solve the mystery by making a podcast like in many books.) The race against time aspect was also cool, but somewhat underdeveloped until the last 50 pages. And there were a bit too much characters, it got more confusing when the narrator referred to them by last name instead of first. But the queer representation was amazing, including a pan-identifying main character, which we rarely see in books, especially in the YA genre. Highly recommend this book, especially for fans of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder."
Isabella Quinn
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