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The Summer We Lost Alice (2012)

by Jan Strnad(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1479274429 (ISBN13: 9781479274420)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Jan Strnad

review 1: I thought this was going to be a typical mystery. I enjoyed the book until it crossed over into paranormal activities. Just not my thing. A boy gets sent to a small town to spend the summer with relatives. He and his cousin are typical kids enjoying the summer. One night they sneak out and she disappears. He (and the rest of her family) spend the rest of their lives trying to understand what happened to her. When he's grown, he goes back to the town and helps solve the mystery of her disappearance. Someone into the paranormal would probably enjoy reading this book.
review 2: This book starts off very well but just can't keep it together to the end. Ethan Opochensky goes to spend the summer with his Aunt and Uncle and cousins in a rural Kansas town calle... mored Meddersville because his parents are having trouble and may get divorced. The initial distrust and then the growing relationship between him and his younger cousin, Alice, seems to foreshadow something big about their futures. Kids go missing that summer in Meddersville and his life is changed forever. The description of the family in Meddersville and the cousins and the townspeople is wonderful; the book had so much promise during the first part. It ultimately turns into two different stories though and the second one does not live up to the promise of the first. The second part of the book takes place when Ethan is an adult and working as a tv psychic. He returns to the little town and unfortunately, it falls completely apart here. Everything sane and stable and ordinary changes into crazy and supernatural and just plain odd and creepy. I very much do not recommend. less

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