Bravo to Heather Gudenkauf for a great first novel! I absolutely loved this book. It had me hooked at the beginning and would not let go. I first thought that this book would be a mystery. Just by reading the back, you would think so, but this book is shelved in the fiction section. It really feels like a dark better Jodi Picoult book. Every chapter in this book tells the story through the eyes of a different character. (Just like As I Lay Dying -Faulkner) Although it does not reenacted what has happened several times. You only get the story once. In reading the book this way make some things unknown and particular things know to the reader that other characters don't know about. So, either way it's a surprise. I feel like now, I'm not making sense.
The main character is a little girl who turns mute after a horrible accident. She doesn't grow up in the best of homes, considering her father is a total drunk, and her mom decides to stay in that unhealthy relationship. She befriends a girl that stands up for her one day at school and they become best friends ever since. Her friend turns into her voice. One morning, both mothers wake up to both of little girls missing and there are footprints outside one of the houses. An investigations goes on that brings out awkward embarrassing family secrets when all they want to do is to go out and look for the girls in the woods. 5 stars
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