"Don't try to find me."
With those words, fourteen year-old Marley sets off every
parents' worst
nightmare -- your child running away from home, vanishing
without a trace.
The only clues are how thoroughly Marley has covered her
tracks,
including erasing her tablet and clearing out messages
from her e-mail in-
box, cell phone and her social media accounts. Marley
doesn't have a clue
what she is getting into until it is too late. This
nightmare is real for
Marley's parents, Rachel and Paul use social media to
start a site
named FindMarley.com. I still can't believe DON'T TRY TO
FIND ME is
Holly Brown's debut novel!!
If you like to be kept on the edge of your seat, don't
miss reading DON'T
TRY TO FIND ME. It was a quick read, but very intense. It
could even be
called a thriller. Holly Brown does a fantastic job in
building the tension. We
know that Marley saw something happen with her mother, and
it was
enough to make her doubt anything Rachel says. We also
know that
Rachel is hiding something - or a few somethings and that
those secrets
have impacted not just her relationship with her daughter
but also her
relationship with her husband, and even her job. I felt
bad for Marley's
parents and the anguish they are going through, but they
are kind of
naive and I kept wanting to smack some sense into them!
While Holly Brown knows how to deliver suspense, DON'T TRY
TO FIND
ME is so much more than that. Ms. Brown masterfully dives
into the
complexities of mother-daughter relationships, love,
betrayal, and how easy
it is to unconsciously take our loved ones for granted.
As a mother of two
girls, one a teenager, this book scares me quite a bit.
Talk to your kids, be
honest with them, trust them but monitor them and teach
them that social
media can be a bad thing.
I don't want to give away the plot, but let me just say
that I did not want to
put DON'T TRY TO FIND ME down. I was hooked from the very
first page
and had to know what was going to happen. Ms. Brown sure
knows how to
keep a reader flipping the pages like crazy! The
questions of just how well
you can and should know your children and what you can and
should know
about their friends (both in real life and on-line) will
linger with you long
after the final page is turned. I look forward to
reading many more of Holly
Brown's books!
When a fourteen-year-old runs away, her parents turn to
social media to find her—launching a public campaign that
will expose their darkest secrets and change their family
forever, in this suspenseful and gripping debut for fans
of Reconstructing Amelia and Gone Girl.
Don’t try to find me. Though the message on the kitchen
white board is written in Marley’s hand, her mother
Rachel knows there has to be some other explanation.
Marley would never run away.
As the days pass and it sinks in that the impossible has
occurred, Rachel and her husband Paul are informed that
the police have “limited resources.” If they want their
fourteen-year-old daughter back, they will have to find
her themselves. Desperation becomes determination when
Paul turns to Facebook and Twitter, and launches
FindMarley.com.
But Marley isn’t the only one with secrets.
With public exposure comes scrutiny, and when Rachel
blows a television interview, the dirty speculation
begins. Now, the blogosphere is convinced Rachel is
hiding something. It’s not what they think; Rachel would
never hurt Marley. Not intentionally, anyway. But when
it’s discovered that she’s lied, even to the police, the
devoted mother becomes a suspect in Marley’s
disappearance.
Is Marley out there somewhere, watching it all happen, or
is the truth something far worse?
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