YA-AHOLIC BOOK BLOG: Review: The Night She Disappeared by April Henry

Review: The Night She Disappeared by April Henry

Title: The Night She Disappeared by April Henry
Genre: Young Adult, Mystery
Details: 240 pages
Source: Netgalley

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Gabie drives a Mini Cooper. She also works part time as a delivery girl at Pete’s Pizza. One night, Kayla—another delivery girl—goes missing. To her horror, Gabie learns that the supposed kidnapper had asked if the girl in the Mini Cooper was working that night. Gabie can’t move beyond the fact that Kayla’s fate was really meant for her, and she becomes obsessed with finding Kayla. She teams up with Drew, who also works at Pete’s. Together, they set out to prove that Kayla isn’t dead—and to find her before she is.
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Gabie works at Pete’s Pizza, where she delivers pizzas in her mini cooper. Her co-worker Kayla switches Friday night with her. But when Kayla goes out to make a delivery, she doesn’t come back, and now she is missing. As if this wasn’t horrifying enough to hear, Gabie also learns that the man that has kidnapped Kayla, had originally asked if the girl with the mini cooper was delivering that night. Kayla was never the target he wanted…Gabie was. Now with the city of Portland on edge, Gabie and her coworker Drew will work together in trying to piece together where Kayla is, and who took her, before it’s too late.

The Night She Disappeared is a riveting on the edge of your seat mystery! The Night She Disappeared is written from various points of view, the main ones being Gabie, Drew, Kayla, and John Robertson (the man keeping Kayla hostage). Reading from all the different point of views makes this novel so much better, you will watch through Kayla and Drews eyes and them listening to how everyone suspects that Kayla has been killed, then in the next chapter you’re reading from Kayla’s point of view being trapped in a basement and having to call her captor ‘master’.

Kayla’s point of view is the most stressful to read, you don’t know if she will be around much longer, if her captor will kill her soon since she isn’t his intended victim, if she will try and attack her kidnapper, reading Kayla’s point of view was always the most ‘exciting’. Gabie is an interesting character throughout the novel, she is taking Kayla’s disappearance very hard and is feeling guilty that it should have been her, not Kayla taken that night. Also Gabie seems to have some sort of ‘6th sense’ the novel never goes into too much detail about it, but throughout the novel Gabie constantly says that she knows Kayla is still alive, that she can just feel that she is still alive. Not in the hopeful way, but that she actually feels something almost like a psychic ability telling her Kayla is still alive. Kayla and Gabie were the most interesting to read from, Drew was enjoyable, but Kayla and Gabie were always more exciting to read from.

Overall The Night She Disappeared was a great YA, suspense, mystery novel. You will be on the edge of your seat not knowing if they’re going to find Kayla in time, or if they will piece it together a little too late. This novel has suspense, mystery, a little bit of action, some romance, mental disorders, and just so many other factors that made this a great read!