S. R. Johannes

Grace is a teenage girl who was taught survival skills by her father who was a wildlife enforcement officer, but who has been missing for 3 months. Everyone else seem willing to write him off as dead, even though his body was never found, but Grace refuses to give up on finding him alive.

"Dad used to always say, nothing is untraceable. Everything that touches this earth leaves a special imprint, a unique mark that proves we existed in some way - no matter how invisible we may feel."

What seems like a pretty simple premise for this book takes off in many different directions, which can seem a bit dizzying at times. I didn't have a problem with the writing itself, I just wasn't sure what type of book this one wanted to be. I didn't really connect with Grace either because she just didn't seem like a very nice girl, although the stress of searching for a missing parent could certainly explain some of that. There were some pretty distressing descriptions of animal abuse that I wasn't able to read, so I just skimmed over those. Again, I feel like this book switched genres a lot.

All in all, the writing was good, I just personally didn't connect with the story much. I felt like the ending went way off course, so I won't be continuing with this series.

3/5 stars.… (plus d'informations)