Rapid Review: Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

Title: Elizabeth is Missing
Author: Emma Healey
Edition: Penguin Books, 2015

Rating: ★★★

Review

This book is clever, I have to give it that. Healey has woven her stories together really well. The two mysteries inform each other and seeing it all from the point of view of an elderly woman with memory issues keeps the details hazy and the conclusion unclear. 

I did think that the ending was a bit underwhelming. I was expecting so much more from both stories than I got, especially after reading the reviews on the cover: 'haunting', 'unsettling', 'gripping'.

This book did make me slightly emotional thinking about all the people who suffer in the same way Maude does, and the likelihood of that happening to the people I love. 

More than that though, it made me realise that I really am I YA reader. I can appreciate that books for adults are good and I can see why people love this book, but if it's not YA my heart's just not in it. 

TBR: January

A new year, a new month, a new TBR.

This one starts with the end of my last list:

1. Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
2. Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa
3. My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
4. Mosquitoland by David Arnold
5. Something that is on my uni reading list.

 

TBR: Christmas Holiday

Welcome to The Worlds I Live In!  Let's start things off with a good old TBR – My Christmas Holiday TBR. I've got three weeks off from uni and here are the books I'm hoping to get through:

P.S I Still Love You by Jenny Han
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Night Owls by Jenn Bennett
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

                             
                                               

(At time of writing, P.S. I Still Love You has already become my 41st book of 2015)

(At time of print, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, has become my 42nd book of 2015)