Title: The Summer She Went Missing
Author: Chelsea Ichaso
Publication: March 5, 2024
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Genre: Thrillers, Psychological Thriller, Teens, YA Fiction
Pages: 384

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SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads)

Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington.

This summer, they’ll search for the truth.

Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, with lazy days sunning at the waterfalls and nights partying at the sprawling houses of the rich families who vacation there. The Covingtons are one of these families, and beautiful, brilliant Audrey Covington is Paige’s best friend. And last year, when Audrey’s crush-worthy brother Dylan finally started noticing Paige, she was sure it would be the best summer ever.

Except Audrey didn’t seem quite like herself. Then one night, she didn’t come home. Though Audrey wasn’t the first girl to disappear in Clearwater Ridge, she left behind more lies than clues. Now, one summer later, her case has gone cold, and nobody, least of all Paige, can make sense of what happened.

When Paige stumbles across a secret hidden in Audrey’s room, however, it changes everything she thought she knew about last summer. She and Dylan set out on their own investigation, discovering things even the police don’t know about the people of Clearwater Ridge. But tracking down missing girls—girls who might be beyond saving by now—means entering a world far darker than Paige has ever imagined. And if she isn’t careful, she’ll become the next girl to vanish.

REVIEWS:

**A copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**

I love a good teen mystery and The Summer She Went Missing by Chelsea Ichaso fell right into that category. There’s something about a few teenagers trying to solve a mystery that I love. In this case, Ichaso wrote the story of a missing girl from a year before and now her best friend and brother are trying to figure out what happen. Ichaso did not disappoint!

This story follows Paige as she returns to her favorite summer place that hasn’t felt the same since her best friend went missing the summer before. Joining forces with her crush and brother to her missing best friend, Paige and Dylan go on a dangerous search to find out what happen to Audrey. So many secrets are revealed as I was constantly guessing who was the problem and what had happened. Just as I thought I knew what was going on, another piece of the puzzle would come to light and would wipe my guesses clean.

My only issue was that at times it seemed like the adults were not paying attention to the kids for them to be doing what they were doing and in a world where a child had already gone missing and was unsolved, I feel the parents would be a bit more controlling.

All the way to the very end I was clueless as to how this was going to play out. The climax of the story had my jaw dropping and kept me flipping the pages as fast as I could to see how it was all going to end. Ichaso delivered a nail-biter yet again. I will always be waiting to read Ichaso’s next book!