{"id":4940,"date":"2022-02-18T23:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T23:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2022-02-18T23:28:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T23:28:52","slug":"if-i-disappear-by-eliza-jane-brazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/if-i-disappear-by-eliza-jane-brazier\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>If I Disappear<\/b> by Eliza Jane Brazier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/53066531-if-i-disappear\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1598067523l\/53066531._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"If I Disappear\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/53066531-if-i-disappear\">If I Disappear<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/19552716.Eliza_Jane_Brazier\">Eliza Jane Brazier<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/4559055921\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sera is obsessed with a true crime podcast about missing women, young unattached women who disappear in Northern California. She&#8217;s the (now trite) unreliable narrator of the story. She&#8217;s a mess, after a divorce and having lost a child, the obsession is her life. Rachel, the podcaster, inexplicably stops podcasting and Sera is determined to find out why. She is convinced Rachel has been killed. She heads to Rachel&#8217;s remote ranch off the Klamath River where Rachel&#8217;s parents own a summer riding ranch for tourists. Everyone up there is weird and something clearly is not right, but she&#8217;s the outsider stirring up trouble among the hostile locals.<\/p>\n<p>I was slow to get into this story. It is told in the first person, which is not unusual, but written as though Sera is talking to the missing Rachel, e.g., &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe you never told me. All this time you were trying to save others.&#8221; I&#8217;ll give it style points for originality, but I found it off-putting at first. The author has a knack for ratcheting up the suspense as the various characters shift in and out of the role of chief suspect. Is there even a crime? No one there has reported one. Her parents tell Sera she was killed by a gang, but everyone else says she just took off to get away from her crazy family. Sera&#8217;s parents hate and distrust the local townspeople and the feeling is mutual. None of the characters are likeable and there&#8217;s not a lot of meat to this story, but the answer as to what happened to Rachel (and possibly those missing victims in the podcast) is well hidden until the very end. I&#8217;d give it three and half stars if I could, but I&#8217;ll squeeze out four.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier My rating: 4 of 5 stars Sera is obsessed with a true crime podcast about missing women, young unattached women who disappear in Northern California. She&#8217;s the (now trite) unreliable narrator of the story. 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