Summary:
Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return - except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She's right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she's been or what happened to her.
Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong - she's emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who - or what - is she?
My Thoughts:
The girls decide to take a weekend at a new inn on the mountains to reunite and have fun together. But that all changes when they see Julie. At first, everyone assumes that she looks like that due to her blocked out trauma from the years she was missing, and that's also why her eating habits changed. As the hours go by, everyone has a sinking feeling that it's something much worse. Elise starts hearing things in her room when no one's around, and thinks she sees Julie looking inhuman.
I really wanted to like this book, but the characters were extremely one-dimensional. The friends have almost no chemistry, and there are very few flashbacks to round out the characters and their relationship to each other. They all seem to have one character trait to distinguish between them. When things start to get revealed towards the end, it doesn't feel like it payed off. The explanation behind Julie's disappearance could have been done better, and we don't even know by the end if she was human or not. That could have been fine if the characters were developed and the explanation of Julie's disappearance was done differently. What could have been a great book ended up being lackluster, and it's a shame.
My Rating: 1 star
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