Victoria's Reviews > The Day I Disappeared

Missing (and returned) children stories always capture my interest, so I was excited to experience this novel - my first from this author. And going in, I had no idea that she was also a local to me author! It's always fun to read something that is set close to home (the suburb of Lake Bluff in this case). And while the author has an implausible taste in baseball (really - not the Cubs, but the other team??), no other details about the setting stood out as being unbelievable.

Told in two perspectives, the adult daughter who went missing for 94 days when she was four, and her alcoholic mother who is in a coma - this one hooks the reader right in. While the main characters both make bad decisions and the drama level is high, the story is genuinely entertaining. The plot does take a few predictable turns, but the latter half was especially impossible to put down. I would definitely read more from Reeds in the future!