All the Missing Girls: A Novel Kindle Edition

I was totally engrossed from the get-go with this novel. Fabulous. Like another reviewer, I too was initially hooked by the book cover. This is a review whereby I again find myself saying 'stop comparing to novels to Gone Girl and Girl on the Train' - this is a stand alone thriller not to be compared to any other. I could NOT put this down. I read WAY too late into the night/after midnight hours, I found myself doing something I NEVER do: picking my Kindle up to continue at odd moments during the day when I wanted to spend a little 'relaxing' time. The novel told 'in reverse' definitely adds to the entire drama of the story....be patient! It's worth it.I am a huge 'highlighter' - those philosophical thoughts put down by the author, a unique/interesting/captivating way of explaining something, things that make me literally stop my reading and stare into space digesting what I just read - it's visceral - I highlighted more in this novel than any other. I LOVE how this author writes. I'm hoping my following examples of what I highlighted help portray what I mean - I think sentences/passages put down by the author in this novel were of equal value to the amazing story.Examples to whet the appetite:"I knew that voice like twelve years of history filed down into a single memory, a single syllable.""He wasn't losing his mind, he was just lost within it. There was a difference. I lived in there. TRUTH lived in there.""He looked up, his blue eyes watery, slippery as his thoughts.""Only a sane person would realize how close he or she was to the edge. Not like my dad, who didn't know when he was teetering too close to that chasm, didn't seem to notice the change in velocity as he went tumbling into the abyss.""The car was too cramped, too hot, and I rolled our windows down, the air running through my hair like a memory I couldn't grasp.""People were like Russian nesting dolls - versions stacked inside the latest edition. But they all still lived inside, unchanged, just out of sight.""Something that had led her here, and she'd seeped into the cavern walls - her bone the smooth rock, her teeth the jagged stone, her clothes disintegrating in the darkness.""But for me, this was scarier. He wasn't clawing for sanity, or fighting for understanding, or raging against the unfamiliar. He was letting go.""The facts. The facts were difficult to see clearly. The facts were like the view from our porch - shadows in darkness and shapes you could conjure up from fear itself.""Nobody would ever love you so fiercely, so meanly, so thoroughly. And the parts of you that you wanted to keep hidden - she loved those most of all.""I think Corinne believed that life could break even somehow. That there was an underlying fairness to it all. That the years on earth were all a game. A risk for a payoff, a test for an answer, a tally of allies and enemies, and a score at the end.""The way he spoke made me think he wasn't from here. Not this town, anyway. An hour east was all it took to make a difference. the mountains and the single winding road kept this place separate, insular.""We had developed a habit after our mother got sick, fighting in the space between words about anything other than what we meant.""I thought of all the little things I'd held on to. All the little things I'd taken with me when I left. A fine, transparent thread leading all the way home.""Her power, I realized, was not limitless, as we had all believed. It had borders, and when she left that house, she refused to give another inch. It was a learned trait: how to push, how to manipulate. She knew the line to walk, She learned that from her father - PUSH BUT NOT TOO HARD; CRACK BUT DO NOT BREAK. The darkness lives in everyone. She knew this better than anyone. Everyone had two faces, and she looked deep into us each until she found it.""There was something both familiar and discomforting about the rain here. In the city, it hit the windows and streets and flooded the gutters, like it was encroaching on us. It caused traffic jams and made apartment lobbies too slippery. But here, the rain was just another part of the landscape. Like it was the thing that lived here and we were merely visitors.""Some religions believe time is cyclical, my father had said. That there are repeating ages. But to others, time is God. A gift for us to stretch out and exist in.""Because the thing about standing here in the middle of the mountains with the rain coming down, in a house your grandfather built, is that it's too easy to notice how insignificant you are.""It wasn't in church but in moments like this when I maybe believed in God or something like that. Some order to the chaos, some meaning. That we collide with the people we need, that we meet the ones who will love us, that there's some underlying reason to everything.""........But that's childhood. Before you realize that every step is a choice. That something must be given up for something to be gained. Everything on a scale, a weighing of desires, an ordering of which you want more - and what you'd be willing to give for it.""It happens like this - men losing themselves in moments of passion. We drive them to it. It's not their fault.""There is nothing more dangerous, nothing more powerful, nothing more necessary and essential for survival than the lies we tell ourselves.""If there's a feeling to home, it's this. A place where there are no secrets, where nothing stays buried: not the past and not yourself. Where you can be all the versions of you, see it all reflected back as you walk the same stairs, the same halls, the same rooms.""It's the four walls echoing back everything you've ever been and everything you've ever done, and it's the people who stay despite it all. Through it all. For it all. Where you can stop fearing the truth. Let it be part of you. Take it to bed. Stare it in the face."And then there are the author's quotes by Soren Kierkegaard - one the author provides at the beginning of the novel, the other at the end (which I found to be brilliantly done by the author):"It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards.""It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards."

Nicolette grew up in a small town in NC. When she was 18, her best friend disappeared and was never seen again. Nic left town shortly after that to begin her new life without looking back. She's now a school counselor in Philadelphia, engaged to a kind and successful lawyer. But her dad has dementia and is in a home and her brother asks her to come home for the summer to help him prepare their father's house to put it up for sale. And then another girl disappears.The first 70ish pages of this book go in normal order. Then it switches to "The Day Before" and does that for the last two weeks. And then it turns back around for the climax. It was confusing at first but a really interesting way to share the information and I ended up liking it.I had a theory about a third of the way in as to what happened to Corinne. And it got stronger as I kept reading the book. And then the ending came and it turned out I was wrong :D. This is a good mystery that does leave some holes in the end, but it definitely kept me turning the pages.

This wasn't my favorite by this author. But still a great story and over all, I enjoyed it.

Revealing the storyline in reverse was confusing for me and I honestly don’t understand how it contributed in a positive way. Nonetheless, seeing it all unfold held my interest and I appreciated the reveal toward the end. Didn’t get there on my own.

It’s hard for me to find thrillers that can truly surprise me, but this one was a welcome surprise! So many twists and turns, so many gasping out loud moments! The plot was truly addictive! I found myself staying up well into the wee morning hours purely because I couldn’t put it down! Megan Miranda is definitely an automatic read author for me now!

Megan Miranda is my new fave author! Read her books!!!!

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This book is about a woman, who has worked hard to shed her past, going home. It deals with the unsolved disappearance of her high school best friend, and a new girl, gone missing the night after she gets home. The interesting part is that the bulk of this book is told in reverse. Day 15 back to day one, the day she disappeared. I think it was a cool, different way to come at an otherwise traditional missing girl mystery but I think it didn’t work perfectly throughout. It ultimately brought me down to the 4 star rating, because I was ultimately left with 5 star vibes but I can’t ignore the fact that it started to drag a little around day 10 or so and didn’t pick back up until around day 5. I loved the resolution to the mysteries and the ending, and it was well written, but I got a little bored for a second just getting there and I think some people who have trouble with dnf-ing books may give up on it.

Il libro è un bel thriller, si legge velocemente e mi è piaciuto molto il finale

Es lo que me pasa por escuchar a los demás cuando se trata de libros. Ni pude acabarlo, no me gustó para nada. Los personajes de una dimensión y la historia en sí tampoco era muy interesante. Creo que con este tipo de libros o aciertas o fallas, no hay término medio.

Sehr spannend

Esta escrito de forma original ya que va de adelante hacia atrás y así poco a poco vas entendiendo la trama.

This book starts out setting the context for the protagonist giving the reader a little sneak peek into the case of the missing girl from 10 years ago. The scene is set. The mystery is beginning to unfurl. The characters are introduced and then bam. The timeline changes. The story is being told backwards. While many might find this confusing and exasperating (so many reviews in that vein), I loved it. I mean if movies can do it, why can't books? In fact, without this type of story telling, the story itself is pretty simple with an almost predictable ending. But the fact that it's being told backwards makes you pay closer attention and you end up wondering how and when all the questions that are forming in your mind will be answered. And the author does not disappoint. She manages to close all the loopholes with fairly simple and believable explanations and while this isn't a thriller that will have you at the edge of your seat, it does have suspense, small town drama, a love triangle and the thrill of mystery solving thrown in. Her writing is flawless and she paints so vivid a picture that you can't help but see the book through. I kind of did hope for a bigger bang at the end but overall I'm not complaining. It was a quick and easy read once I got used to the shift in the timeline.