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“The year is 1987 and the sleepy village of Sandown Bay is waking up . . .” To its residents, Sandown is home – a tiny village holiday resort in the western United States.
To everyone else, it’s a minuscule island, that brings tourists in summer and not a lot else the rest of the time.
To Mona Perry, it’s a mystery.
Thirty-four years ago, promising singer and Sandown resident Roxy Raines went missing, and was never found. The people of the island are still reluctant to talk about it, claiming Roxy was simply a runaway, but the evidence doesn’t quite add up.
Mona is convinced something else is going on. Armed only with a suitcase and a microphone – to record her findings for the general public – this runaway teenager is determined to get to the bottom of the disappearance.
But as Mona gets drawn deeper and deeper into the strange goings on of this isolated community, it is clear that nothing is as it seems – not even Mona’s own past.
Some things are meant to disappear . . . ‘ – Description from Goodreads
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Ever since finishing ‘The Truth About Keeping Secrets’ I have been excited for Savannah’s next novel, and I was not disappointed!
The characters in ‘The Things We Don’t See’ are what makes the story, they all have complexity to them drawing you to have almost a love/hate relationship with the majority of them. Each character is flawed, but this is a perfect reflection of what small areas such as Sandown Bay are like; even if they appear as one friendly community, everyone has their secrets which is made apparent from the very beginning. The relationships between the characters in the book are also very complex, especially between the trio of Mona, Peyton and Ellis which is explored throughout the story too.
Alongside the characters, I did become very attached to the setting and its mysteries, the setting was so perfect for this storyline and is a major part of the plot, even though it has its issues I still feel like I want to see it all for myself.
‘The Things We Don’t See’ is just a brilliant book, it had me gripped to the point where I couldn’t put it down until I’d finished. If you’re into mysteries then I would thoroughly recommend it! There are many twists and turns and as soon as you think you’ve cracked it… I promise you, you haven’t!
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‘The Things We Don’t See’ is published on June 24th and you can pre-order it here*
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