BookishlyFaith

Rating: 3 stars I received an e-copy on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. (Thanks!) I've heard of this author before; she wrote With Malice . When I read the synopsis for this book and found out that the author is Canadian, I knew I had to request it on NetGalley. All in all, I did like what the author was trying to accomplish with this book but I found the end product to have fallen a bit flat.  The Hanging Girl is about Skye Thorn, a girl who needs money to move into an apartment with her high school friend in New York. Skye pretends to be a psychic to make her way through high-school. She agrees to help someone in school fake a kidnapping and keep the police investigation going with her psychic skills so that they can get the ransom money and do what they want. But it all goes wrong and Skye is stuck with the aftermath.

Rating: 2.5 stars.  I've read quite a few of Kelley Armstrong 's YA books, like the  Darkest Powers series, Darkness Rising series and her most recent YA standalone, The Masked Truth . All of those books I've liked, if not loved. Missing was a different story for me in terms of enjoyment. Missing follows teenage girl Winter Crane. She lives in a small town with her abusive father and works at a medical clinic, hoping to get into medical school in the future.  Her mother died when Winter was young and Winter's sister Candace left for a bigger city after a tragedy that she blames Winter for. Winter's life gets shaken up when she finds an injured boy in a tree, trying to escape dangerous wild dogs.  She saves him only to get caught up in a psychopath's scheme. I think my favourite part of this book was the atmosphere that Armstrong creates. Missing is set in a small town in Kentucky and throughout the book, it becomes clear how independent one must ...