A review by meaganmart
The Stranger Game by Cylin Busby
3.0
When Sarah Walker disappears her parents and friends are devastated. They spend countless hours, offer exorbitant rewards, and visit morgue after morgue trying to find any information related to Sarah's disappearance or whereabouts. As the years pass Sarah's sister, Nico, is able to quietly admit to herself that she's glad to be free from the daily abuse rained down on her by a cruel and vindictive big sister. Just as she's grown into the role of the "only child" and found her stride in her high school her family gets a call that Sarah has been found.
Nico can't help but compare the Sarah that comes home after four years away with the Sarah of before. She's shy and withdrawn whereas the old Sarah was loud and brash. Her feet are bigger, she seems to excel at advanced math and science that the old Sarah never mastered, and perhaps, most damaging of all, she claims to be unable to remember a single detail of her life before or during her captivity.
Nico can't help but wonder if the "new Sarah" is really Sarah at all, and it becomes increasingly clear that she's not the only one with doubts or the only one who really knows what happened the day that Sarah disappeared.
I thought the dual narration provided by Nico and Sarah was very interesting and helped add tension to the plot. I was particularly interested in Sarah's chapters and was very interested to piece together the backstory provided by her POV.
Nico can't help but compare the Sarah that comes home after four years away with the Sarah of before. She's shy and withdrawn whereas the old Sarah was loud and brash. Her feet are bigger, she seems to excel at advanced math and science that the old Sarah never mastered, and perhaps, most damaging of all, she claims to be unable to remember a single detail of her life before or during her captivity.
Nico can't help but wonder if the "new Sarah" is really Sarah at all, and it becomes increasingly clear that she's not the only one with doubts or the only one who really knows what happened the day that Sarah disappeared.
I thought the dual narration provided by Nico and Sarah was very interesting and helped add tension to the plot. I was particularly interested in Sarah's chapters and was very interested to piece together the backstory provided by her POV.