![]() ![]() I love meta fiction, and I love when books can pull off a faux-trans media approach. ![]() The format, the ambient noise, the way podcast hosts speak, and the kinds of production values they have are burned into my brain. The idea of the fake podcast was so intriguing. I will say that up front, because I am about to say a lot of things that didn’t work for me. She follows cold clues across the country, trying to track down a man she hasn’t seen in years. We join her on journey soon after she leaves, where she states pretty much up front that she’s off to find the man who murdered her sister, and kill him. ![]() The second part of the book is from Sadie’s POV, in the first person. We are treated to the full podcast treatment, with interviews from people who knew Sadie, the cops, news broadcasts, and people West tracks down. The host, West, tracks Sadie’s progress cross country, months behind her, trying to figure out why she left and what happened to her. Sadie’s thirteen year old sister, Mattie, was murdered and she herself disappeared soon after. ![]() The first is a fake podcast with a host who is trying to track down the missing 19 year old, Sadie Hunter, after a family friend contacted his podcast show for help. So this book is about bad things that happen to girls, and it’s split into two parts that alternate every other chapter. But here, the audio really pulled me out of the story. Firstly, I’m nearly certain that I would have given this four stars unreservedly had I not done the audio version. ![]()
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