One month ago, on the clock, I finished reading Courtney Summers' latest book. Released on September 4th, Sadie's story climbed fast and successfully in YA Fiction charts. Receiving high praises from renowned writers, the thriller hasn't only intrigued but also satisfied the curiosity and surprised by qualifying as a Goodreads nominee in Best Young Adult Fiction category. So naturally the book is quite extraordinary, showing off all these good statistics is hard to resist reading it, but all in good merit though, because "Sadie" is one powerful story, written in a mystifying way.
Description
A missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial-like podcast following the clues she's left behind.
Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.
But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.
When West McCray—a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America—overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.
Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.
But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.
When West McCray—a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America—overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.
And it begins, as so many stories do, with a dead girl.
I've been quite a mess lately, reading two books simultaneously or more, with not so much pause between them to assimilate the action, all for meeting deadlines or self achievement. I read "Sadie" mostly at night, after up to ten hours of reading another book, so my mind was in chaos and my attention down low. But I made it through and relished each word of this amazing story that is "Sadie".
Courtney Summers is not familiar to me, I'm at a first meet and greet with the author and I'm embracing and cheering and delighting in her writing, because is something that I haven't encountered before - just a personal lack maybe. The read was just so real, trapping me in its construction. Did I mention I read the book twice? Because I did, although the second time I've mostly skimmed just to shake my memory a bit. And in the near future it's marked on my calendar a third one, because Sadie lands in Romania, at Leda Edge this December and I guess I can't resist.
Back to our business - with this story you have to be invested 100%, otherwise you miss it. It's all feelings, hurt and sadness, despair and guilt, vindication and unknown. Such a clever and good way to narrate it that it's impossible to not feel for the character.
Sadie is heartbroken and grieving her sister's death. Both girls faced a hard childhood but Sadie always protected Mattie, surrounded her with love. Finding Mattie gone, Sadie's mind is all about revenge and knowing who's to blame, there is nothing that can stop her. Walking on a dangerous road, her inner turmoil escalates when tracking the man who killed her sister.
Investigating Sadie's disappearance, West McCray relates the facts leading to the harsh truth on a radio show, named "The Girls". Whilst Sadie stutters through her quest, West follows her steps to make light of the events. This parallelism is catching, keeping you riveted, actually hearing the voices instead of reading them, tormenting you with a suspense so thick that you want to request a fast-forwarding button for it.
Sadie is an unique character, with her stutter, her simple presence, her sisterly love and devotion, recklessness, guilt. The story is extremely powerful, not only for its plot, but also for the heartbreaking image that presents, of young girls left to fend for themselves, let down by adults and mistreated, abused.
I can't take another dead girl - that's as raw as can possibly be. This book is shivers, heartache, madness.
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