Don’t get me wrong, when done right, I like romance. Sometimes I feel that authors think that they need to put romance in a book to make it appealing, or to make it YA. Lay it on some more, why don’t you?Īlso present is the stereotypical romance. I suppose you’re supposed to feel sorry for Gabie, with such cold, busy doctors for parents, but I just kept snickering at the author’s description of them. And the stereotype is so thick I found it humorous. Gabie’s parents are the stereotypical doctors: health-freaks, coldly rational, and machine-like. See? Things like this really lend well to the ambience. Only I don’t have anything to write with. I could write on the back, and leave it in my pocket so people will know who I am. I finger the label on an empty water bottle. Will they find my body, years from now, and wonder who I am? That thought is the worst, that I might become some nameless dead girl, a stranger’s pile of bones. Is there going to come a point when I want to die? Will I ever see the sun again? Will I die here?

And it’s clear that for some people in the room, this is the first they are hearing about this. Doesn’t that mean he really wanted Gabie?” She looks over her shoulder at Gabie and whispers “Sorry!” as if she has revealed a secret. “I heard he asked for the girl in the Mini Cooper. Together they set out to prove Kayla isn’t dead-and to find her before she is.”

Was Kayla’s fate really meant for Gabie? Obsessed with finding Kayla, Gabie teams up with Drew, who also works at Pete’s. To Gabie’s horror, she learns that the man who called in the fake pizza order had asked if the girl in the Mini Cooper was working that night. One night, Kayla, another delivery girl at Pete’s Pizza, goes out with an order and never comes back. Genre: Realistic, Tough Read, Mystery, Suspense Young Adult The Night She Disappeared is written by April Henry. I’ll be returning to Tuesday and Friday uploads for the next couple of weeks until school starts up again in late January.

The night she disappeared plot