Missing by K L Slater
Split between two timelines, this was a story that caught me by surprise. Just when I was convinced of the plot, it changed; left me thinking that I could have guessed it all along as the twist was quite plausible. While this story is about a missing child, yes, there is a child that has gone missing in the 2019 timeline, there was yet another child who had gone missing way back in 1993, it is a lot more about a child missing out on parental love, a parent losing any sense of how she should deal with her child(ren). It was a story of missing out on memories that actually defines childhood. It is the missing of innocence by the time adulthood sets in, leaving the individual broken and irreparable. When Josie was a young girl, she had faced the most devastating of moments - her baby brother went missing and eventually found dead. Samuel Barlow, a few years older to Josie, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment. Moving ahead, Josie is a single mother, raising a cute...