Today we kick off the blog tour for Missing by Ruby Speechley!
Here’s the blurb.
Single mum Ellie is shown a missing person post on Facebook.
It’s of her three-year-old son, Tyler…
But he’s right there, holding her hand.Surely this is some kind of prank – she knows her friend Louise can go too far with her jokes sometimes. And Ellie is used to the other mums gossiping at the school gates…
But now the other parents are questioning whether Tyler is really her child.
Ellie does everything she can to prove the post is fake, but the longer it goes on she knows it is malicious. Who would do this to her? And why?
It could be her ex, Darren, but deep down she knows it must be linked to what happened all those years ago – the night she’s been doing her best to forget…
All she knows is that she has to keep her son safe – no matter what.
Review.
The combination of the book title, cover and blurb hooked me in..
Ellie is a single mother looking after her little boy Tyler.
One day she starts receiving funny looks from other parents and it soon becomes clear it’s all because of a post on Facebook… a post to say her son Tyler is missing!
As we all would do, parents judge, some too quickly and it takes a while for common sense to kick in and
show the post is a fake… but who would do that? And why?
We soon learn Ellie has a disturbing past. While she’s now sober that wasn’t always the case and one night many years ago something happened that she’s been trying to hide from.. but she can only run so long and that past will need to be confronted.
Not to spoil too much but the phycological fear of Clowns that Ellie has really hit home for me as it’s my fear.. but Ellie has much more of a reason to fear them than me.
As the plot progresses It feels like someone is playing mind games with Ellie but who and what is the end game here?
The pace of the book was perfect for me.. it kept you hooked but never bored.. I spent most of my time thinking I knew who was behind it..and their connection to Ellie but it’s the motivation behind the why that had me stumped and I feel that’s just like Ellie is.. it’s
takes her a while to see the danger she’s in but when she does she can’t put all the pieces together.
I try to give none spoiler reviews so I’ll not go into detail but the mind games, the utter torment Ellie goes through is unreal.. it’s subtle but builds and builds as the pressure
raises, she really doesn’t know who she can trust and being so far away from
her close friend means she’s isolated and those she does confide in just don’t
see the danger either
Pace 5* Plot 5* Character Development 5* Loved it! 5*. (Clowns -5* urhghghghghhghg I hate clowns ha ha)
My thanks go to @rararesources for having me on the tour, as well as the author and publisher for supplying an ARC to aid my review. As usual though… I’ve bought the book too. At £99p you’d be crazy not to grab a copy!
Purchase Link – https://mybook.to/missingsocial
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Author Bio –
Ruby Speechley is a bestselling psychological thriller writer, whose titles include Someone Else’s Baby. Previously published by Hera, she has been a journalist and worked in PR and lives in Cheshire.
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