The balance of the book is devoted to West McCray, a public radio producer hosting his first serialized true-crime podcast, based on Mattie’s murder and Sadie’s disappearance. In alternating chapters, we hear from Sadie, a runaway 19-year-old vigilante protagonist determined to kill a pedophile who abused her and later killed her younger sister, Mattie. That opening plot synopsis comes from a podcast transcript that runs through the novel. And it begins, as so many stories do, with a dead girl.” In the novel, girls are neglected, hunted, assaulted, and killed.īut in an effort to be different than your average girl-in-peril thriller, author Courtney Summers has added a clever meta device.
It’s about the lengths we go to protect the ones we love … and the high price we pay when we can’t.
On the first page of Sadie, the reader is told exactly what to expect: “It’s a story about family, about sisters, and the untold lives lived in small-town America.
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