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Jul 03, 2019WoodneathYoungAdult rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I thought this book was written in an interesting perspective. If you are a fan of podcasts like "serial", where someone investigates an old unsolved case, you'll definitely like this book. The radio investigation in this novel is titled, "The Girls", and it follows the case of a missing girl, Sadie, and her dead sister Mattie. Mattie and Sadie grew up living hard. Sadie lived harder, trying to protect her younger sister, Mattie, from the harsh world she knows. With no father and a mother that battles addiction and brings strange men home a lot, the girls had to struggle to survive. Mattie disappears after their mother decides to leave them, and days later her body is found. Sadie, who suffers from a stutter, will not be stopped on her way to track down her sister's murderer no matter who gets in her way. Her story is pieced together by the radio host, West McCray, when the story in Sadie's perspective, stops. It's a great suspense novel that I devoured in two days.