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The Girl Who Never Came Home

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Really enjoyed reading this book, couldn't put it down, must admit its one that I would happily pick up again and read, 
Overall I would recommend to anyone to read it, can't wait to get it on my page and let my followers know what I think about it!
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Zoe is on a camping trip with her class, she's the average teenager who is popular. She's mean, down right nasty, she hides her brain and she's pretty. In the cabin she has her two best friends and a girl who she is really mean to, but not everything is as it seems. Zoe and her best friends get into an arguemet that fateful night and Zoe leaves the cabin. In the morning she still has not returned and they start a search party, and in that search party they find her dead. Now, the police are trying to figure out what happened and as it happens everyone has secrets including Zoe. As events unravel not everyone is as they seem and some secrets are to die for. A secret guy, a secret relationship for her sister, the elderly teacher who decides that it's not her problem, the friend who wants Zoe to understand what she does to people, a person who wants to hurt Zoe as much as she has hurt others and the other friend who really doesn't care anymore and the mother who thought she knew her daughters later finding out there are so many secrets that she didn't know. As the investigation continues to unravel and the secrets come out, the tensions rise between everyone and the death of Zoe affects more people than originally thought.
A great gripping story that had me on the edge racking my brain trying to figure out who I thought was guilty, and in the end I never would have guessed the twist. I guess looks are deceiving but definitely a great read!
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Zoe is 16 and is on a school camping trip! Her mother gets a phone call no mother ever wants to get, Your Daughter is Missing! OMG! Not my daughter, surely they have it wrong, did they check all the cabins and tents? Look in the bathrooms? I’ll be right there! Get dressed, tell her sister, call her step-father. 

They have started search parties! Where is she? They find her dead on the beach. They believe she fell off the cliff in the dark and hit her head. No, something is not right about this whole scenario! 
The mother is adamant she wants it investigated because something is terribly wrong. I know my daughter is not an angel, but she did not deserve to die!

The author has done a wonderful job in keeping the readers intrigued with the twists and turns, but the flow of the book at times seemed to be choppy and could have been more cohesive. I think it was dragged out that it waned my interest at times and then it would pick up again. 

Overall it’s a good book and I would recommend this book.

I received an advanced copy from NetGalley and these are my willingly given thoughts and opinions.
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Nicole Trope is a brilliant author. This book was emotional, suspenseful, UNPUTDOWNABLE. The beginning was so powerful that I had to take a few breaths to calm my heart down.

What happened to Zoé? At 8:30am, Zoe was lost from school camp. 23 hours later she was dead. Her mother needed answers.

A mother’s love – strong and powerful – the author could capture this with a few strokes of her pen, making this book a heart wrenching tale. Suspense was weaved in, curiousity popped up when different characters close to Zoé spoke about their relationship with her.

Capturing a character in all angles within the pages of the book, bringing out the good and bad, was often insurmountable, but the author made it so easy. The scenes gelled in smoothly, revealing the various snapshots of Zoé’s life seamlessly. Only by seeing a person through everyone’s eyes, I got the idea of who Zoe was. We are human, a mix of good and bad and filled with emotions.

This was a book read at one go. How could I stop myself? Like the mother Lydia, I needed to know what happened to Zoé. I had to take a few minutes hugging myself before I could write this review.

The author’s command over words, her sensitivity to nuances, her characterization left me awed. And the emotions… Oh the feelings, they left me overwhelmed. My heart just overfloweth. One of the most fantastic reads of 2020.
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I wasn't sure what to expect from this book when I started the first chapter but oh my!  it's just like Wow! So powerful and sad! I have never read a story quite like this one. 
This is a new to me author and I am truly blown away by how realistic this book is. 
Lots of twists and turns that I never saw coming along with the many emotional turns as well. .
 Lydia could be telling my story or any of our stories really. 
I'm a teen mom and I hate letting my son out of my sight for this very reason! I know I need to someday but it will be hard to. 
The people that ask me why I never let my son do hardly anything should read this book. It's so very emotional that I had to have a box of tissues by my side.
I stayed up until 5 am so that I could finish this book. I just had to finish Lydia's story.
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WoW! Is all I can say. 
This book was so much more then just a book!
This one grabbed my attention and keep me reading till the last page. 
And I think the reason why was because of how real this book was! 

I could not imagine what Lydia was going through? Its every mother's worst nightmare.
This book was heartbreaking, beautiful, shocking. 
This was an emotional book to read that's for sure. 
But it was real, raw, emotional.

Thank You NetGalley publishers and author for this ebook copy!
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This is a heart-wrenching story about a girl who disappears from a high school class camp out, with lots of twists. Zoe is known to be a very nice 16 year old girl, as well as a bully.  The book explores the aftermath of her death, as experienced by her mother, sister and step-father, as well as her friends and teachers. Was her death deliberate or an accident? This is an excellent book that is definitely worth spending the time to read. I recommend it to everyone who likes a good mystery that is very realistic.I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and Bookouture. All opinions expressed are my own.
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