A review by holomew151
Safe by S.K. Barnett

4.0

Jenny was a 6-year-old girl who vanished whilst walking over to her friends. Despite attempts to find her, she could not be found, until one day 12 years later when she's seemingly found. The twist of course is that this isn't the real Jenny - it's a different girl who has had a hard life and spends her time impersonating missing children. But there seems to be more to the household she's placed herself in, especially related to that of Jenny's brother Ben.

Now this book was a heck of a rollercoaster ride, filled with twists and turns which kept me reading to the end. The particular high point was the first chapter, describing the fate of a missing poster in quite the elegant way. I also liked the reveal, which intially sets Ben up to have killed his own sister, albeit in self-defense only to reveal that he was actually trying to save her from her pedophile father. My only criticism of it is that I never really gelled with the main character, maybe because her past was too patchy at times.

Still, a good read.