There really isn’t much of a mystery: it’s clear from the start Anna is the missing sister there are only two narratives in the book. Told in alternating chapters, A Girl Named Anna is an extremely quick read I finished in roughly three hours – at around 330 pages, 100 per hour is a rapid pace for me! The chapters are short, brisk, and easy to read. Back home in England, the family continues to search fifteen years later, hoping with each media appearance that someone, somewhere, will finally come forward with a new lead. When she was just a year old, her older sister suddenly vanished while the family was on vacation. Growing up in the spotlight hasn’t been easy on Rosie. Locked in a house with little in the way of entertainment apart from gardening and reading the Bible, Anna seems more like a young woman from a much earlier era.
For fifteen years it has been Florida’s biggest theme park, yet Mamma has forbade it for some unknown reason. Dark, intense, and gripping, hello!Īnna has just turned eighteen and made a secret wish with her pastor’s son of a boyfriend: she wants to visit Astroland. When I was approached to review A Girl Named Anna, I had high hopes: a sister’s disappearance, a cult-like religion obsessed with cleanliness, a Mamma who must be obeyed above all else. Something dark, something intense and gripping that will thoroughly rope me in and hold me captive until the Big Reveal is announced. But can she find the answer before it tears her family apart?Īs the temperatures drop and the mornings come with a chill in the air, there’s nothing I look forward to more than sinking into a mystery. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of her sister’s disappearance, the media circus resumes as the funds dedicated to the search dry up, and Rosie vows to uncover the truth herself. Rosie has grown up in the shadow of the missing sister she barely remembers, her family fractured by years of searching without leads. She’s never been allowed to visit Florida’s biggest theme park, so why, when she arrives, does everything about it seem so familiar? And is there a connection to the mysterious letter she receives that same day-a letter addressing her by a different name? But, on her eighteenth birthday, she defies her Mamma for the first time in her life, and goes to Astroland. Summary: Raised in a quiet rural community, Anna has always been taught that her Mamma’s rules are the only path to follow. Source: e-ARC via publisher (Thank you, Harlequin/MIRA!)
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