The Vanishing Girl || The Plot Will Keep You On Your Toes

There are novels you pick up to read and you instantly know you’re never dropping it till you get to the very last page.

This novel, was one of them.

With a blend of romance, fantasy, science fiction, and just the right balance of smut chapters, I knew there was no going back for me once I started.

When I started leafing through the pages of this book, I intended to read about a chapter or so before bed to see what the buzz about it was on Booktok.

What I did not expect to do, was get hooked.

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The beginning of the book was a bit heated for me. Ember has a tattoo, but she doesn’t remember getting one. They are branched and twisted like a tangle mess of root, and looks like something done by an amateur tattoo artist.

Ember does the one thing a teenager her age would do, she goes to get another tattoo, to try to even out and cover the mysterious one.

At this point, I would say my curiosity was piqued. I mean, if I woke up with a body art that I didn’t have done, I would freak out especially if it was a really terrible body art, and try to clean it out instead of cover it up.

Which begs the question, how did it get there ?
How did she end up with the tattoo?

However, it turns out that there is more to mysterious Ember. Whenever Ember sleeps, she mysteriously teleports to a random location, for just about ten minutes.
It can be London, her crush's bedroom, anywhere.

Honestly, without mincing words, I think that would be really cool if it happened to me.
I get to travel anywhere for ten minutes without paying for it? I'm so down.

Teleporting however, cannot save Ember from being kidnapped by handsome Caden Hawthorne a week after her eighteenth birthday.

Ember believes her powers are a secret, but they are not. The government knows about Ember, and many others like her, and they secretly use them as weapons.

Dragged off to a remote facility where others like her live, Ember is forced to pair up with her captor, Caden, where she must either learn how to survive, or escape.

Ember has two choices, escape from the government and live, or fall in love with her captor, stay, and resign herself to whatever fate the government has in store for people of her kind.

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Like always, the first thing about this book that drew me in was the artsy cover.
I have a thing for books that have appealing covers, if the cover is appealing, I like to believe that its content would be too.

I have to give it to the author, not only did she do a great job with the cover, she did a brilliant work with the synopsis. The synopsis had me excited and very intrigued to read the story.
The creativity behind it all was mind boggling, and don’t even get me started on the plot.

Truly, I had every intention of detailing every single aspect of the plot, but that would be so unfair on readers who would be reading it for the first time.

For readers like me, who have devoured every inch of this book, you would agree with me, that everything about this plot kept people on their toes.
There were so many twists and turns, chief amongst them being when we discover that Ember’s parents might not be completely ignorant that she teleports, and that they might in fact have something to do about her capture.
Let’s not even get started on when Ember finds out why she teleports.

Did I have any favourites as characters? No I did not.
The author did an extremely amazing job at making sure the characters embodied their roles, and Ember might just have been the most interesting character for me, but other than that, none of them really stuck as favourites.

The story is short and very fast-paced and you cannot help but really enjoy and get into it.
And the smut scenes? Just exactly what was expected.
Many critics have argued that those scenes felt a bit forced, but you can’t be captured by the government as an experiment, and be expected to have steamy, passionate, balanced-driven sex.

Do I recommend this book? I definitely do, and cannot wait to get my hands on more books by this author.