DNF Review | The Vanishing Season by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Posted on Monday, July 21, 2014 4:00 AM
The Vanishing Season Format: e-ARC
Source: Publisher via Netgalley
Publisher: HarperTeen
Publication Date: July 1, 2014
My rating: 1 of 5 stars


Girls started vanishing in the fall, and now winter's come to lay a white sheet over the horror. Door County, it seems, is swallowing the young, right into its very dirt. From beneath the house on Water Street, I've watched the danger swell.

The residents know me as the noises in the house at night, the creaking on the stairs. I'm the reflection behind them in the glass, the feeling of fear in the cellar. I'm tied—it seems—to this house, this street, this town.

I'm tied to Maggie and Pauline, though I don't know why. I think it's because death is coming for one of them, or both.

All I know is that the present and the past are piling up, and I am here to dig.I am looking for the things that are buried.

From bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson comes a friendship story bound in snow and starlight, a haunting mystery of love, betrayal, redemption, and the moments that we leave behind.

My Thoughts:

Please note that this review is based only on what I read, I DNF’d at 40%.

This book was not what I was expecting….AT ALL. When I read the summary for this book, I was expecting some creepy mysterious ghost story, unfortunately that’s not what I got. I didn’t really care about the characters at all, the plot was too lacking for my taste and I really didn’t understand the whole ghost POV thing.

I hate to say this, but I had a hard time reading this book from the very beginning. Everything was just moving way toooooo slow and I wasn’t getting invested. BUT, I hung in there because I’ve come across books that started out slow like this before and absolutely loved them by the end. However, this just wasn’t the case when it came to this book. I held in there until 40% and I just couldn’t take anymore.

Like I said above I really didn’t care about the characters at all, and since there seemed to be basically no plot, it wasn’t enough to keep me reading. If you’re looking for a thrilling ghost story, then you should probably look somewhere else, because this book isn’t it. But if you’ve read and enjoyed this author’s work before, then you should probably give it a try because you may like it better than I did.
 
 

----Christy



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Aw, sorry you didn't like this one. I had a lot of trouble with it. Mostly because I was expecting GREAT THINGS from this author and yeah...where was the plot? Although I have to say, the ending really hit me in the feels and I ended up rating it 3-stars! The ending was the best part. ;) Heh. Typical right?!
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I didn't even get the The Lovely Bones reference until near the end, and by then I loved it, and it was cruel and I also hated it. So I guess I have a love/hate relationship with it, because I almost DNF'D it a quarter way through because I was bored and wasn't really liking the characters, but I don't know, the writing just compelled me to carry on and I was glad I did. It did pick up halfway through (though really, it shouldn't have taken that long) but the second half was waaay better than the first. I WANTED TO HIT PAULINE SO MANY TIMES though. Shame you couldn't get through it (completely understand why though- and to be honest, I wouldn't have if I didn't have the UK review copy.)
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P.E.@TheSirenicCodex · 555 weeks ago

I read Tiger Lily and it was really slow too, and I ended up liking it, so I think I'll give this one a try because I know Anderson's writing. That being said, sad to hear it's another slow story. Tiger Lily kind of crawled as well, but the ending was good and redeemed it for me. Sorry to hear you couldn't finish this one and thanks for the review!
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Thank you! After reading a bunch of positive reviews of this book where everyone was all "It's so literary and sophisticated!" I was starting to wonder if I was the only one who didn't like it/get it. I really wish I had just DNF'ed this one, too, because nothing really happened and the ending was just so terrible. Glad to know I'm not alone in my feelings on this one.
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