The Housewarming

Plot Details
Ava and Matt's daughter Abi has disappeared. Ava was only upstairs for a few minutes, but when she came back down, Abi was gone and the front door was opened. After days of searching, Abi still was nowhere to be found with no explanation of what happened.

One year later, Ava and Matt's neighbors are having a housewarming party to show off their expansive new kitchen and house renovations. Everyone is happy, a bit drunk, and some details start to pop up a bit more about the day that Abi went missing. What really did happened? Does someone know something and isn't telling?

My Thoughts
I liked the premise of this book, but I thought it started out really slow. The first 25% of the book was really just about Abi's disappearance and the little that was known about it, which wasn't much. It covered a lot of Ava's thoughts over and over, I felt like, and started to drag a bit. The last half of the book did pick up some, and I liked the conclusion and the way it played out. The book had a bit of a message to it, which I enjoyed. It was just a very slow burn and hard to get through. I would've rated it 3.5 stars if I could, but to me it didn't quite make it to 4.

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Plot Details
Ava and Matt's daughter Abi has disappeared. Ava was only upstairs for a few minutes, but when she came back down, Abi was gone and the front door was opened. After days of searching, Abi still was nowhere to be found with no explanation of what happened.

One year later, Ava and Matt's neighbors are having a housewarming party to show off their expansive new kitchen and house renovations. Everyone is happy, a bit drunk, and some details start to pop up a bit more about the day that Abi went missing. What really did happened? Does someone know something and isn't telling?

My Thoughts
I liked the premise of this book, but I thought it started out really slow. The first 25% of the book was really just about Abi's disappearance and the little that was known about it, which wasn't much. It covered a lot of Ava's thoughts over and over, I felt like, and started to drag a bit. The last half of the book did pick up some, and I liked the conclusion and the way it played out. The book had a bit of a message to it, which I enjoyed. It was just a very slow burn and hard to get through. I would've rated it 3.5 stars if I could, but to me it didn't quite make it to 4.