Friday, December 3, 2021

If I Disappear

Today’s post is on If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier. It is 293 pages long and is published by Penguin Random House. The cover is an illustration of a woman with her face in pieces and flowers on the inside. The intended reader is someone who is interested in a twisty, female led mystery. There is foul language, mild sex and mild violence in this novel. The story is from first person close of the main character, Sera. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the dust jacket- When her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession.

Sera loves true crime podcasts. They make her feel empowered in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She's sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes missing, Sera knows it's time to act. Rachel has always taught her to trust her instincts.

Sera follows the clues hidden in the episodes to an isolated ranch outside Rachel's small hometown to begin her search. She's convinced her investigation will make Rachel so proud. But the more Sera digs into this unfamiliar world, the more off things start to feel. Because Rachel is not the first woman to vanish from the ranch, and she won't be the last...

Rachel did try to warn her.


Review- This is an interesting mystery that fumbles at the end. Sera is a woman whose life is falling apart. She is recently divorced, she lost her baby, her job, and she is going to get kicked out of her apartment. But she has an obsession, a true crime podcast by a woman named Rachel, then one day Rachel stops. Sera must know what happened to Rachel, so Sera moves to where Rachel lived, got a job at her family ranch, and begins to discover what could have happened. I mostly enjoyed this novel but the ending was not great. The last second twist was odd and I felt it was just to be shocking without having much to back it up in the story. But until the end I enjoyed the novel and I would like to read more by the author. 


I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library. 


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