Mary's Reviews > If I Disappear

Well what a ride this one was! If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier is a debut but you could have fooled me. I loved the tenseness in this book, and I thought it was both perfectly suspenseful while also giving the reader a very claustrophobic feel. It is definitely a slow burn, but I could not put it down and there is enough going on that you just want to keep reading until the very end. I love that every chapter starts with an excerpt from Rachel's true crime podcast, and that plus the short chapters made the book fly by. You can never be sure of Sera as a narrator, and she was a bit unreliable overall which I think brought something extra to the story.

The isolated ranch couldn't have been a better setting, and there are so many things that gave me the heebie-jeebies. If I Disappear is a very unsettling read, and while nothing is overly descriptive, there are still plenty of disturbing and chilling things about it. I thought the writing was fantastic and it was a very unique and smart debut. I definitely had no idea where it was headed, and the end left me with my mouth hanging open and chills. I don't normally love the kind of end this one has, but it really worked here, and I was satisfied with it. Maybe there will be a follow-up in the future?? I can only hope, and no matter what Brazier's next book is I will definitely be reading it!

Thank you to the publisher for my advance review copy via NetGalley. All opinions and thoughts are my own.