Diane S ☔'s Reviews > The Leaving

3.5 Addicting, I was seriously addicted to this story. Six children disappear on their first day of kindergarten, eleven years later five come home. No memory of where they had been, nor who took them to begin with. No memory of Matt, the missing child. The story is narrated, in alternating chapters by Avery, the missing boys sister, Scarlet and Lucas, two of the returned. They each try together, and separately try to figure out where they have been. The writing during Scarlet's narration was kind of strange, not sure why it was written that way, but really the whole book is mysterious.

Not that this is perfect, I could poke my usual holes in some of the plot occurrences. Why I went down to 3.5, but.....I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Such a strange story, and I enjoyed trying to put things together, just as the characters were trying to do. There are clues strewn throughout, things they each remember, feelings, other things that happened from before they were taken, but this was for me, impossible. I do wish the ending was a little less emotionally dramatic, but this is marketed for the young adult audience, and at that age I probably would have loved it.