I have mixed feelings about this book – I liked it and I didn’t like it. I felt the beginning was great but then began to get weighed down with way too many words and too many details and then seemed a long time in getting to the end. After all that, we never did find out why one girl was even taken!

At four years of age little Callie stopped talking due to something her father said to her on one particular day but no one knows about this other than Callie herself. Callie’s mother Antonia is heartbroken as is her brother Ben when they discover that Callie has stopped being verbal. Petra is Callie’s best friend and she does all the talking for Callie and seems to just know and sense what it is she wants to ask or say and says it for her. Her brother Ben always looks out for her as well so Callie has lots of people to keep her occupied and interested.

One day both Callie and her best friend Petra disappear and each character’s point of view is written chapter-by-chapter in the first person which is fine but the writing just lacks ‘something’. The story is told in one day which is the one day that Callie and Petra were missing in the woods.

I feel that the author had very good intentions in writing and telling this story, but the book lacked character and plot development. It wasn’t a bad book at all, just not one that I personally would highly recommend and was a bit disappointed in. Not every single person loves every single book, but perhaps you will enjoy it.