A review by oliviachase59
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf

5.0

This book was a surprise for me!! Never heard of the book or author before, my mom’s coworker just gave me her copy. I figured it would be something to read before bed to help me fall asleep. Instead, I ended up pushing my bedtime because I was so engrossed!! I loved how fleshed out the characters all are, how it jumped jumped back and forth in the time line, the multiple perspectives, the backstories. I’m truly invested in Willow Creek!! I’d love another book set in this town. As a mystery, I thought she did a wonderful job of keeping you guessing, despite many chapters being told from the perspective of one of the missing children. And there are multiple smaller mysteries buried in the larger one: why doesn’t Callie speak, what happened between Antonia and Louis, what’s the one word Callie says in the first chapter? Overall a wonderful book.