The Missing – Kiersten Modglin

They disappeared…
That was just the beginning.

When five strangers are abandoned on an island without any idea where they are or whom to trust, their nightmarish new reality begins to unfold.

Someone is lying.
Someone is hiding a terrible secret.
They’d all do anything to get home… Wouldn’t they?

As the group struggles to uncover the truth about their mysterious whereabouts, only one thing is certain: every choice they make on the island will affect the others.

And when they uncover a strange note with a chilling revelation, the group begins to question everything they thought they knew. If they want to make it off the island alive, they’ll have to discover who brought them there and why…before it’s too late.

Review

I read this book right after the second instalment in the The Arrangement series because I just REALLY didn’t want that world to end. I was in love with the characters and their twisted “love” story. Kindle Unlimited does an amazing job at advertising books that you almost 100% will like based on your reading history, and so The Missing was introduced to my life.

Katy spends the majority of her holiday reading by the pool, not by choice but because her husband is constantly working and she feels ignored. Her vacation is going more uneventfully than she would have liked until a stranger approaches her by the beach with the offer of a free spot on a boat tour. Obviously, she accepts, thinking she would relax a bit with the other holidaygoers and spend a great time without thinking about her husband… until there’s a problem with the boat’s engine and the group is then stranded and left abandoned by the captain.

By the time I had read this, I thought: Jesus Christ, one more book, and Kiersten WILL be positioned as my favourite author and definitely one of the greatest I’ve read in my life… and she definitely delivered. She’s a very prolific writer; her ideas are always mind-catching, and her prose couldn’t be more engaging.
Genius.

The Missing is everything you didn’t know you wanted until you got it. Like a true master, Modglin makes you believe something all throughout the book until the mind-boggling truth reveals itself in such a natural way that it doesn’t feel OTT. Another thing that I really like about Modglin is that she writes her chapters mostly from first POV.