The narrative form of Sadie is fascinating and terrifically rendered the dual narrative between Sadie’s first-person voice as she smashes her way through tracking down Mattie’s killer and that of West’s present-day podcast scripts is hypnotizing and positively foams with tension.

For how can it be possible for tragedy to happen to two sisters…to two girls? Sadie has to be alive, somewhere…and May Beth brings West into the fold as a last hope. May Beth Foster, surrogate grandmother of Mattie and Sadie, contacts producer West and pleads with him to find Sadie- to do anything to make noise, to help, to investigate, to try and bring Sadie back, alive. No body, no suggestion of what could have happened, or where Sadie could be. As the novel opens, readers quickly learn about Mattie’s murder case, how it was thought to be a botched investigation, how Sadie never recovered from Mattie’s death…and how now, just about a year after Mattie’s murder, Sadie herself is missing. Sadie alternates between the first-person narrative of Sadie herself, with that of the transcript of a serial podcast hosted by West McCray called The Girls. Sadie is propulsive and harrowing and will keep you riveted until the last page.Ĭourtney Summers’ latest young adult novel Sadie follows nineteen year old Sadie Hunter as she hunts down the person she believes is responsible for the horrifying and unsolved murder of her thirteen year old sister, Mattie Southern. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie’s journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it’s too late.Ĭourtney Summers has written the breakout book of her career. When West McCray – a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America – overhears Sadie’s story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister’s killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him. Growing up on her own, she’s been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.īut when Mattie is found dead, Sadie’s entire world crumbles. Thank you!Įxpected publication: Septemby Wednesday BooksĪ missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial – like podcast following the clues she’s left behind. If you get a chance, check out the rest the great blog tour stops along the way. Please read on for my review of Sadie, as well as a Q&A with Courtney Summers. Sadie has been gaining major momentum leading up to its release and has already received four starred reviews. Welcome to one of the first stops on the Raincoast Books blog tour celebrating Canadian author Courtney Summers’ latest young adult release, the thriller Sadie! Today, the tour stops by my site and at Pop! Goes the Reader.

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