The Vanishing Season

By: Jodi Lynn Anderson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson comes a haunting and lovely small-town romance, perfect for fans of Gayle Forman, Lauren Myracle, and Laurie Halse Anderson.

When Maggie’s parents move them from bustling Chicago to small, rundown Door County, Wisconsin, she thinks she’ll spend a year reading classics and killing time until college.

That plan changes as soon as she meets Pauline and Liam. Soon the three are inseparable, stretching out the love between two childhood best friends to fit over all of them and all their grand dreams.

But what starts as an uneventful year suddenly changes. Someone is killing teenage girls, and the town reels from each new tragedy. And as the dynamics between Maggie, Pauline, and Liam shift and collide in irreversible ways, they all will experience love and loss hand-in-hand—but only two of them will survive the winter.

Slow paced, not a thriller but still profound

The title of this book is extremely misleading, the story and plot have almost nothing to do with the disappearances. It took me a while to get into the story but it does grow the characters nicely; in both good and bad ways. I see quite a few people complaining about the ending but I personally think the ending saved the book. It was so drab and lackluster without it.