"Once more, Kelley Armstrong delivers a puzzling and scary book that you will not want to end."
Reviewed by Lynn Cunningham
Posted October 5, 2017
Young Adult Suspense
Reeve's End is one of the bleakest, small towns that anyone
can be stuck living in and Winter Crane's one and only goal
is to get out of this Kentucky backwoods environment. She
has goals and the biggest one is to save enough money along
with being awarded enough scholarships that will allow her
to make her escape. Her sister and best friend have both
left and she has never heard from them again. Winter figures
that is just the way things go. Once she is able to leave
this hell hole behind, she has no plans to ever look back. Winter has it all figured out until the day she meets a
really cute guy named Lennon. He has managed to become
snared in one of her traps in the forest and somehow made it
to a tree where he managed to climb to safety from a pack of
wild dogs before passing out. After several hours of
remaining in the tree herself, she was finally able to
safely descend and figure out a way to get the unconscious
boy from the tree back to her secret shack in the woods. Once he wakes up, Lennon and Winter talk and get to know
each other until he is able to move around, which is good
since there are noises beating upon the door and the sides
of the shack. Eventually, the two are able to escape into
the woods and Winter sneaks Lennon into her trailer. The next morning, Lennon was gone. Later in the day, another
really cute guy shows up on a motorcycle looking for his
brother, Lennon. This boy's name is Jude and he and Winter
bond as they search for the missing people they love. The
search turns out to be an exercise in terror, even though
they do get their answers. The thing is, the answers they uncover are too shocking to
contemplate. If you are already a follower of Kelley Armstrong and the
awesome worlds she creates through her writing, then you
know what a great book MISSING is. For those of you who have
not read anything by Ms. Armstrong, this is a great one to
start on a gripping journey. With the usual perfection that
fans of Ms. Armstrong have come to expect, the plot of
MISSING will not disappoint. The characters are smart, determined and stubborn, which is
also a trademark of Kelley Armstrong's books. Winter is
totally focused on her goal of getting out of Reeve's End
but she also does everything she can to help out her
neighbors who might just need her. As you can imagine,
Winter does not get a lot of sleep as she joins Jude in his
search for Lennon, her sister, and her friend because she
not only cares about people in need but she has become a bit
attached to him in the process. As this is a gritty, scary book, MISSING cannot be ignored
by fans of plots that cause you to keep looking on your
shoulder. You will also not want to visit any woods in the
near future. The answers to the mysteries presented in
MISSING are there by the end of the ride you took to find
them. It should also be mentioned that this is a rather
"clean" book that probably would be rated a PG-13 if you
were going to see it in a theater, which is where it
definitely deserves to be! Kelley Armstrong has a very
unique writing style that combines the supernatural,
mystery, quirky characters, and humor that no one should
ever miss.
Learn more about Missing
SUMMARY
Fans of Jennifer Donnelly will flock to the new romantic
thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author
Kelley Armstrong. The only thing Winter Crane likes about Reeve's End is that
soon she'll leave it. Like her best friend did. Like her
sister did. Like most of the teens born in town have done.
There's nothing for them there but abandoned mines and empty
futures. They're better off taking a chance elsewhere. What Winter will miss is the woods. Her only refuge. At
least it was. Until the day she found Lennon left for dead,
bleeding in a tree. But now Lennon is gone too. And he has Winter questioning
what she once thought was true. What if nobody left at all?
What if they're all missing?
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