The Missing Season

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Whenever another kid goes missing in October, the Pender kids know what is really behind it a horrific monster out in the marshes they have named the Mumbler.That s what Clara s new crew tells her when she moves to town Bree and Sage, who take her under their wing spirited Trace, who has taken the lead on this year s Halloween prank war and magnetic Kincaid, whose devil may care attitude and air of mystery are impossible for Clara to resist.Clara doesn t actually believe in the Mumbler But as Halloween gets closer and tensions build in the town, it s hard to shake the feeling that there really is something dark and dangerous in Pender, lurking in the shadows, waiting to bring the stories to life. New Read The Missing Season [ by ] Gillian French [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Her writing talent is undeniable I fished this book in one day because I was so gripped, just on the edge of my seat At least for the first half This mystery revolves around a new girl to town, and an age old monster myth I was sucked into the story right away, the atmospheric small town on a marsh, the tight knit friend group, the is this or isn t this paranormal vibe that I love.Then it did what a lot of YA mystery does, adding cheap thrills, a heavy handed red herring, an unnecessary ce Her writing talent is undeniable I fished this book in one day because I was so gripped, just on the edge of my seat At least for the first half This mystery revolves around a new girl to town, and an age old monster myth I was sucked into the story right away, the atmospheric small town on a marsh, the tight knit friend group, the is this or isn t this paranormal vibe that I love.Then it did what a lot of YA mystery does, adding cheap thrills, a heavy handed red herring, an unnecessar...I m between 3.5 and 4 stars, so I rounded up.Clara is used to being the new girl, as her family moves quite often to follow her dad s construction jobs But she s never a big fan of the adjustment period, waiting to see how people will treat her, whether she ll be the loner with no friends or be lucky and make a friend or two, only have to abandon the relationship when she moves away again It never fails.When she moves to Pender, a depressed New England town, she expects it to go the same way i I m between 3.5 and 4 stars, so I rounded up.Clara is used to being the new girl, as her family moves quite often to follow her dad s construction jobs But she s never a big fan of the adjustment period, waiting to see how people will treat her, whether she ll be the loner with no friends or be lucky and make a friend or two, only have to abandon the relationship when she moves away again It never fails.When she moves to Pender, a depressed New England town, she expects it to go the same way it always does She s surprised when she strikes up a friendship with Bree and Sage, and they start including her in things, like cutting out of school to grab lunch, hanging out at the skate park to watch the boys even some high level pranks She and Bree even have a crush on the same guy the mysterious Kinkaid, who comes and goes as he pleases, breezing by on his skateboard.The thing about Pender, though, is that kids have disappeared, or have been found dead through the years, partic...NOW AVAILABLE this is the first book i have read by gillian french, so i don t know how this one stacks up to her other ones, but i knew she was a pretty popular YA author, i saw a free ARC, i loved the cover, and i grabbed it with my sticky froggy hands this is YA written for the younger side of the YA curve and there ain t nothing wrong with that, but most of the YA i ve read seems to be aiming for that juicy YA adult crossover demographic, so the difference is something i noticed when i wa NOW AVAILABLE this is the first book i have read by gillian french, so i don t know how this one stacks up to her other ones, but i knew she was a pretty popular YA author, i saw a free ARC, i loved the cover, and i grabbed it with my sticky froggy hands this is YA written for the younger side of the YA curve and there ain t nothing wrong with that, but most of the YA i ve read seems to be aiming for that juicy YA adult crossover demographic, so the difference is something i noticed when i was reading it on the one hand that makes it an easy breezy read, but on the other hand, i was missing the depth and richness folks like patrick ness and laini taylor and melina...What a lovely surprise this book was I have been itching to read some Gillian French as I have had her books in my TBR for what seems like forever so when Edelweiss had a copy of this available I snatched it right up and since it takes place at Halloween I just had to dive in right away I am still not ready to let Halloween go and for for the other holidays to take over my mind, body, soul, and walletMumbler, Mumbler, in your bed,Mumbler, Mumbler, take your head,Eat your nose, Gobble you What a lovely surprise this book was I have been itching to read some Gillian French as I have had her books in my TBR for what seems like forever so when Edelweiss had a copy of this available I snatched it right up and since it takes place at Halloween I just had to dive in right away I am still not ready to let Halloween go and for for the other holidays to take over my mind, body, soul, and walletMumbler, Mumbler, in your bed,Mumbler, Mumbler, take your head,Eat your nose, Gobble your toes, And bury you where the milkweed growsClara is the new kid in town and starting classes late makes her want to hide in the shadows but she is quickly befriended by Bree and Sage and their group of misfits that include Trace Sage s boyfriend , Moon, and the mysterious Kincaid While hanging out at the local skate pa...So so happy to have read another book by Gillian French honestly everything the author writes I will be in the first line to read.I love her style of writting is so unique that it won t take you so long to fall in love with the story.I have read The Lies They Tell that book is my first read of Gillian French and I absolutely loved it The author is not just talented but highly talented in writting books that in my taste or my opinion are the books I can easily call the best.The author uses a te So so happy to have read another book by Gillian French honestly everything the author writes I will be in the first line to read.I love her style of writting is so unique that it won t take you so long to fall in love with the story.I have read The Lies They Tell that book is my first read of Gillian French and I absolutely loved it The author is not just talented but highly talented in writting books that in my taste or my opinion are the books I can easily call the best.The author uses a technique that you won t even know the ending even not think of what the ending will be.I fell in love with Clara...The Missing Season by Gillian French is a young adult mystery thriller The main character, Clara is a perpetual new girl in town so she wasn t surprised when her dad s construction jobs had them moving to Pender, a depressed New England town.Being constantly the new girl in every town and school Clara was used to being a loner but this time in Pender seemed to be going differently, Clara quickly found herself with a new group of friends While the group welcomed Clara they were known as the tro The Missing Season by Gillian French is a young adult mystery thriller The main character, Clara is a perpetual new girl in town so she wasn t surprised when her dad s construction jobs had them moving to Pender, a depressed New England town.Being constantly the new girl in every town and school Clara was used to being a loner but this time in Pender seemed to be going differently, Clara quickly found herself with a new group of friends While the group welcomed Clara they were known as the troublemakers of the town.Bree and Sage, the girls Clara finds herself closest to soon have her doing things like...If you enjoyed Gillian French s The Lies They Tell, you ll definitely be in for a treat with The Missing Season Crafted with the same atmospheric content from her 2018 release, The Missing Season is fine tuned just perfectly for the reader to enjoy Essentially a young adult novel geared for anyone 13 and above, I had to take that into consideration when reading this crime fiction mystery Without going into too much detail, the story takes place in a town that is struggling to survive it s If you enjoyed Gillian French s The Lies They Tell, you ll definitely be in for a treat with The Missing Season Crafted with the same atmospheric content from her 2018 release, The Missing Season is fine tuned just perfectly for the reader to enjoy Essentially a young adult novel geared for anyone 13 and above, I had to take that into consideration when reading this crime fiction mystery Without going into too much detail, the story takes place in a town that is struggling to survive it s a fallen town, to say the least, and a majority of the households are ranging between lower middle class incomes When Clara and her family relocate to the town for work, her new group of friends inform her about the town s urban legend the Mumbler The Mumbler takes children yearly, and it has spawned a cult like following every Halloween with the ne...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I had a stack of holds come in from the library A lot of them were new releases and I had to just read really fast to get them back on time This was one of them I really had no idea what this was about and was drawn in simply by the title and the cover It turns out this was about missing teenagers and a legend, an urban legend about The Mumbler in Maine I gather that such a rhyme or urban tale of such a thing is true so I was excited and intrigued Clara s dad follows the construction w I had a stack of holds come in from the library A lot of them were new releases and I had to just read really fast to get them back on time This was one of them I really had no idea what this was about and was drawn in simply by the title and the cover It turns out this was about missing teenagers and a legend, an urban legend about The Mumbler in Maine I gather that such a rhyme or urban tale of such a thing is true so I was excited and intrigued Clara s dad follows the construction work, so nowhere is home for all that long, but somehow she fits in really well with the misfits at this school and she understands them Two girls befriend her They take her to all their secret hideouts and all the trails through the forest and she meets the guys and the girlfriends and learns the rules This place has just an eerie fog about it They tell her about The Mumbler, or rather Jade s crazy theatrical, boyf...Having enjoyed French s other mysteries I was really excited to see The Missing Season and knowing that another good YA mystery would be on the horizon.I think I might have gone into this one with my expectations being just a little bit too high.This book started out great I loved the small town going under setting The background on the Mumbler and the whole mystery behind the missing and dead kids and thenI don t know exactly what happened.The mystery sort of..fizzled a bit Things weren t Having enjoyed French s other mysteries I was really excited to see The Missing Season and knowing that another good YA mystery would be on the horizon.I think I might have gone into this one with my expectations being just a little bit too high.This book started out great I loved the small town going under setting The background on the Mumbler and the whole mystery behind the missing and dead kids and thenI don t know exactly what happened.The mystery sort of..fizzled a bit Things weren t as scary or as well plotted out as I can usually expect from French It seems like by the end, even though things came together, they still felt off Like maybe the ending wasn t quite the ending the author had fully wanted as well Like maybe it surprised us all I think this turned into less of an urban legend story or even a ghost story or even a story told at night around campfires to scare small childr...Book is set in Maine Me Wait, so Stephen King co wrote thisClara s the new girl in the town of Pender , her family had to relocate for her fathers job The town is struggling and it s filled with households that are lower and middle class Clara soon discovers friends and their a group of some troublemakers that pull pranks and hang out at the skate park , and she s taken under their wing Her new friends begin to tell her about the local urban legend called The Mumbler You see The Mumbler takes children ever year and it s around Halloween and they beg Clara s the new girl in the town of Pender , her family had to relocate for her fathers job The town is struggling and it s filled with households that are lower and middle class Clara soon discovers friends and their a group of some troublemakers that pull pranks and hang out at the skate park , and she s taken under their wing Her new friends begin to tell her about the local urban legend called The Mumbler You see The Mumbler takes children ever year and it s around Halloween and they begin to tell her about all the teens who were taken and possibly murdered.Soon after being told about The Mumbler Clara starts feeling like she s being watched and also chased in the woods Soon October comes along and another teen goes missing and Clara begins to question is The Mumbler real or is somethingsinister behind the missing teens I normally don t read YA books often but I found myself lost in Claras story and the Urban legend...I really don t know what to think of this one It wasn t really good or really bad, It just fell somewhere in the middle for me so maybe I ll go for three stars rating GOD, it sucks when I don t know what to do with my books.Kids always disappear in Pender around Halloween time and it s all the Mumbler doing, a scary monster who lives in the marshes When Clara, our main character moves in to live in Pender, it doesn t take long for her to learn of the stories but what she dismisses as just glo I really don t know what to think of this one It wasn t really good or really bad, It just fell somewhere in the middle for me so maybe I ll go for three stars rating GOD, it sucks when I don t know what to do with my books.Kids always disappear in Pender around Halloween time and it s all the Mumbler doing, a scary monster who lives in the marshes When Clara, our main character moves in to live in Pender, it doesn t take long for her to learn of the stories but what she dismisses as just glorified stories by bored teenagers can come to life as tension starts to rise in the town as Halloween gets closer Some stories are way too nasty to be true but what if they are, that s what Clara starts dreading as darkness ...originally reviewed at thelibraryladies.com Thank you to Edelweiss for sending me an eARC of this novel I ve been racking my brain, but given that I lived in a fairly large metro area when I was a kid and still do for that matter I can t think of any urban legends that were prevalent in my hometown during my childhood The closest I can come is when two mean girls in first grade tried to convince me that at midnight if you looked up at the sky you d see a star that would automatically ki originally reviewed at thelibraryladies.com Thank you to Edelweiss for sending me an eARC of this novel I ve been racking my brain, but given that I lived in a fairly large metro area when I was a kid and still do for that matter I can t think of any urban legends that were prevalent in my hometown during my childhood The closest I can come is when two mean girls in first grade tried to convince me that at midnight if you looked up at the sky you d see a star that would automatically kill you and everyone you lov... 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The Missing Season
  • 14 October 2018
  • ebook
  • 304 pages
  • 0062803352
  • Gillian French
  • The Missing Season