Review: MISSING HER by J.L. Willow

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Vanessa Stockton and her best friend Eliza are inseparable. They’re living the best years of their lives, enjoying high school, boyfriends and planning for their futures. All that changes, though, when Eliza goes out to a party and never makes it home. Months pass without a break in the case, until one day Vanessa wakes up . . . in Eliza’s mind. Even more disturbing, she discovers she’s woken up two days before Eliza goes missing. Vanessa has no choice but to relive her best friend’s memories leading up to the disappearance and discover the truth about what happened before time runs out. But is the past set in stone? Or can Vanessa save her friend from an unspeakable fate?

My review: Eliza Barrows: Missing

Inseparable since the 2^nd grade, Vanessa was now forced to live without her best friend for the last 5 months. No one has seen or heard from Eliza since she vanished without a trace at a party, and Vanessa hasn’t stopped trying to find her. With everyone telling her to move on, Vanessa makes one desperate plea to find out what happened to her friend. The next morning, Vanessa wakes up in Eliza’s room AS ELIZA. She finds that she’s reliving the day as Eliza and she was invited to the party—the last place she was seen. Could she stop her from going to the party? Could she actually change her fate? Or was this all just a dream? It would seem that Vanessa actually has a real shot at saving her friend until she realizes that she couldn’t control everything Eliza did. Interesting!

In part 2, Vanessa becomes Tony, a college man. What? What happened here?

The main character seems to body-hop a little too much. First, it was Eliza, then Tony, then Jackie. Why? Evidently, these were all kids that have been abducted. Once you get more into, things clear up more. The day-to-day stuff can lag a bit. The only thing that kept me reading was to find out how this would all end. Would Eliza, Tony, and Jackie be saved? The ending was a remarkable revelation.

A pretty good read!

My rating: 4 stars