The Vanishing Season by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Release Date: July 1st 2014 (my birthday!!)
Publisher: HarperTeen
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 256
Source: Borrowed from Library
Summary (goodreads.com): Girls started vanishing in
the fall, and now winter's come to lay a white sheet over the horror. Door
County, it seems, is swallowing the young, right into its very dirt. From
beneath the house on Water Street, I've watched the danger swell.
The residents know me as the noises in the house at
night, the creaking on the stairs. I'm the reflection behind them in the glass,
the feeling of fear in the cellar. I'm tied—it seems—to this house, this
street, this town.
I'm tied to Maggie and Pauline, though I don't know
why. I think it's because death is coming for one of them, or both.
All I know is that the present and the past are piling
up, and I am here to dig. I am looking for the things that are buried.
My Review:
This book is special. From
the summary it seems as if the book is narrated by a ghost and it is and it isn’t.
We spend the whole book wondering who this ghost narrator is and by the time
the reader finally realizes who the ghost is it is too late. This book was
almost overwhelmingly sad for me. The prose is beautiful and haunting and sad
in an almost hopeless way. The Vanishing
Season is intriguing and wonderful despite that sad. It is brilliantly
composed with layers upon layers of memories infused on one little street. The
characters are so well written and flawed and hopeful that they could be real,
they could be living on your street right now. Without giving away the plot
there isn’t much more to say, but I encourage you to read this if you’re looking
for something different.
~Laura!
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