Sadie

Author: Courtney Summers
311 pages
Genre: YA Mystery Thriller.
First published: September 2018
Book Description (from good reads): Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.
But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meagre clues to find him.
When West McCray—a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America—overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late. 

Things to Consider:

1. Plot: 8.0
1. It has a very interesting prompt. The mystery of two sisters sudden disappearances, one turning up but the other nowhere to be found. The fact that it was told, in part, as someone was investigating and in the form of a radio show, a podcast. 
2. The end was not to my complete satisfaction, I want closure, reassurance that my theories are correct and in the end, I need every question answered. The way it ended it was not bad but not perfect... I guess it was the whole purpose to make it be more impactful. 
3. The revelations that happen in this story can be disturbing for people even if there is nothing too descriptive but some of the actions the bad people make, well that's perturbing. 
2. Characters: 9.0
1. Sadie is a very determined and caring girl toughened up by the circumstances of her life. You really root for her the whole way not only because she's doing it for her sister but because you tend to end up liking her. 
2. Mattie well I felt like she was an ungrateful and spoiled kid, not my favorite really. She was not really the sister Sadie deserved but, let's be real 13-year-olds are not the most mature people in the planet, she just needed time to grow up and start appreciating what she really had.
3. Their mother is a horrible person, she just makes excuses for herself and doesn't really own up to the actions and the lack of parenting she did to the girls while they were growing up. She is not at the worst but the woman doesn't even accept her mistakes, it's infuriating. It is logical people don't magically change, so I love the realistic way she is portrayed but as a "person" I don't like her.
4. West the reporter is a very interesting person. He feigns disinterest or maybe he really doesn't want to know because he's afraid of what he could find but his journey is most interesting. We don't see much of him other than his side of investigator and while we do that we simply get glimpses of his personality. 
5. There were other people who get dragged into it during the investigation, most don't have much development but they are very realistic, even in their flaws. 
3. Logic: 9.0
1. There are a lot of people, they make decisions about their lives that end up along Sadie's way. The personalities even in their brevity are well developed enough and it makes sense, even their bad decisions. I like the realistic way they make the story, showing up the way most cases of missing people go, form the underfunded police not being really at that interested on looking into what they categorize as lost causes to the terrible fate the people left behind passing by the danger that people who are on the run have to deal with because it is impossible to know what they will find. 
4. Intrigue: 10.0
1. The story is full of mystery, of a tangled web that you're not 100 percent where they will leave. You need to know the ending, you need to know the way the story unfolds.
5. Intention: 10.0
1. Fully accomplished really. The way its told it gives a better feel to it as well, being told not as a memory, not as it is happening but as a report trying to trace down Sadie's search makes it interesting like you're actually just making the discoveries along with the listeners or the family. 
2. It is a nice way of putting the obvious danger in strangers, in running, in opening up to others; you never end up really knowing people. Sometimes the most upstanding people can hide horrible truths. 
6. Enjoyment: 10.0
1. I really enjoyed it. The form of audiobook is the best way to get the feel of it, but even reading it would have been great. Since you pick it up it starts to unravel and the farther along the way you go, the more intense the story gets. 
7. Writing Style: 9.5
1. The story coming in a form of a podcast in a present but at the same time not, the book has two separate timelines as ir goes, the podcasts, the reports as West finds people and investigates Sadie. Then the other from Sadie's POV as she travels, mixed with memories of her past with her sister, mother, and the men she had around. This gives it a very realistic feel to it making the story easier to get into. But again the ending is annoying (in my opinion).

Total score: 65.5

Average: 9.3

Star Rating: 5.0

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