Title: Have You Seen My Sister?
Author: Kirsty McKay
Genre: YA, mystery
Publication date: September 5th 2023
Published by: Sourcebooks Fire
Source: eArc for review form publoisher via Netgalley
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Synopsis: Gaia Gill is the last person in the world anyone would expect to go missing. Beautiful, athletic, and recently accepted to a prestigious college, she has everything to look forward to—but the night of her going-away party at the Moon Mountain ski resort, she disappears.
Gaia's younger sister Esme is supposed to be flying back to England with her family after the party, but she can't leave with Gaia missing—especially because nobody remembers Gaia leaving the party. Or if they do, they're not saying. Everyone at the lodge has their own secrets: the little rich girl, the ex-boyfriend, the ski instructor, the failed reality star.
Esme's out of her depth searching the dark, dangerous forests and icy slopes of Moon Mountain, until she teams up with a local boy who promises to help her. The clock is ticking, and it's down to Esme to piece the clues together and work out who—if anybody—is telling the truth.
I enjoyed this author’s Undead duology as well as her other YA thriller The Assassin Game, so I was excited to get something new from her! And overall, I thought this book was okay.
As the title suggests, our main character’s sister goes missing. Esme and her family are from the UK and were visiting her sister Gaia in the US where she was working at a ski lodge. But the day before Esme and her parents are set to head back home, Gaia disappears.
Given the cover and the description, I thought this book was going to take place at a ski lodge/resort. For whatever weird reason, I love books that take place in that sort of setting. I don’t even ski! 😆I was a tiny bit disappointed that for the most part, it didn’t take place at the ski lodge that Gaia worked at, but that’s on me. And it was fine! This ski lodge is in this small town so I really liked the small-town vibes of this book where everybody knew everybody.
The characters were okay. I liked Esme’s perseverance in her search for her sister, and I also really liked her budding relationship with Bode, a local boy who helped Esme look for her sister. The overall story was interesting and I liked following Esme as she unraveled this mystery. But idk, there was just something missing that just held me back from loving this. The plot twists, the reveal, and the motive were just unsurprising to me. That might be it.
But, I mean, it was fine! It wasn’t anything too exciting, but it also wasn’t terrible. I liked the setting and the main characters, and while the mystery was interesting, the reveal wasn’t too surprising to me.
Given the cover and the description, I thought this book was going to take place at a ski lodge/resort. For whatever weird reason, I love books that take place in that sort of setting. I don’t even ski! 😆I was a tiny bit disappointed that for the most part, it didn’t take place at the ski lodge that Gaia worked at, but that’s on me. And it was fine! This ski lodge is in this small town so I really liked the small-town vibes of this book where everybody knew everybody.
The characters were okay. I liked Esme’s perseverance in her search for her sister, and I also really liked her budding relationship with Bode, a local boy who helped Esme look for her sister. The overall story was interesting and I liked following Esme as she unraveled this mystery. But idk, there was just something missing that just held me back from loving this. The plot twists, the reveal, and the motive were just unsurprising to me. That might be it.
But, I mean, it was fine! It wasn’t anything too exciting, but it also wasn’t terrible. I liked the setting and the main characters, and while the mystery was interesting, the reveal wasn’t too surprising to me.
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