After her father vanishes while investigating the disappearance of 13 young women, a teen returns to her secretive hometown to pick up the trail in this second YA historical mystery from the author of The Silence of Bones.
Hwani's family has never been the same since she and her younger sister went missing and were later found unconscious in the forest, near a gruesome crime scene. The only thing they remember: Their captor wore a painted-white mask.
To escape the haunting memories of this incident, the family flees their hometown. Years later, Detective Min—Hwani's father—learns that thirteen girls have recently disappeared under similar circumstances, and so he returns to their hometown to investigate... only to vanish as well.
Determined to find her father and solve the case that tore their family apart, Hwani returns home to pick up the trail. As she digs into the secrets of the small village—and reconnects with her now estranged sister—Hwani comes to realize that the answer lies within her own buried memories of what happened in the forest all those years ago.
My Review:
This was a really fantastic mystery! I'm really enjoying the way that June Hur is setting up these mysteries, set in a culture that is really unknown to me, and in time periods that pretty different. And this one in particular, with the girls being collected as tribute, was pretty awful to be a young female!
This was a really fantastic mystery! I'm really enjoying the way that June Hur is setting up these mysteries, set in a culture that is really unknown to me, and in time periods that pretty different. And this one in particular, with the girls being collected as tribute, was pretty awful to be a young female!
This was a fantastic read with an intriguing mystery, and I can't wait to read more!
Author: June Hur
Read: July 19th, 2023
Source: Library
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a Historical Fiction 2023 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: April 20th 2021
Author: June Hur
Read: July 19th, 2023
Source: Library
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a Historical Fiction 2023 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: April 20th 2021
 |
| 5/5 Hearts |
 |
| 5/5 Books |
 |
| 5/5 Stars |
No comments:
Post a Comment
I love comments, so comment away! I'll comment back if you leave a post-specific link for me to visit! If you leave that link, I'll always comment back, even if it's like, a month late!
This is an award free blog! Thanks for thinking of me but I just don't have the time to pass it along!