
The Vanishing Season is a quiet book and the writing is absolutely lovely. It seems to me that so much of this book is set up to insulate Maggie and her friends from the world. Maggie is home schooled, Water Street doesn't get cell reception, and the killer makes people less likely to venture out. And winter, of course, is always a quiet season.
Jodi Lynn Anderson's book is not really a mystery. It's not really a ghost story. This book is about friendship. It's about three friends who just happen to be living with looming danger. There's so much that is lovely about this book, but ultimately, for me, it didn't go where I wanted it to go.
The Vanishing Season is out July 1st, 2014. Review copy from Edelweiss.

The Winter People is a great little ghost story. It's setting is perfect ghost story material: small town, dead of winter, 100 year-old-house, spooky woods, missing people, long-held secrets. I would definitely recommend it for a spooky October night. The January setting also has that quiet, heavy feel of wintery books. If you are feeling overheated in the midst of summer, this book might help you cool down.
Jennifer McMahon builds the bricks of this story in just the right order, carefully revealing the mystery little by little.
Review copy from NetGalley.

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