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Rules for Vanishing

By: Kate Alice Marshall
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Robbie Daymond, Rob Shapiro
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Stranger Things meets The Blair Witch Project in this gripping ghost thriller, perfect for fans of Michelle Harrison, Lauren James and Frances Hardinge.
Once a year, a road appears in the woods at midnight and the ghost of Lucy Gallows beckons, inviting those who are brave enough to play her game. If you win, you escape with your life. But if you lose... It's almost a year since Becca went missing. Everyone else has given up searching for her, but her sister, Sara, knows she disappeared while looking for Lucy Gallows. Determined to find her, Sara and her closest friends enter the woods. But something more sinister than ghosts lurks on the road, and not everyone will survive.
"An exquisitely unsettling dark fantasy." PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
"Delightfully chilling! Marshall delivers riveting twists, gasp-out-loud surprises, and haunting revelations right up to the final page in this irresistible mystery." NATALIE C. PARKER
"The horror-fantasy mash-up I didn't know I was waiting for - and an unreliable narrator like no other." KESIA LUPO
"Rules for Vanishing has all the prerequisites of a horror classic - stunningly original, delightfully dark, and simply terrifying. A tense and exhilarating read for those with or without a pulse." DANA MELE©2019 Kate Alice Marshall (P)2019 Listening Library Difficult Situations Family & Relationships Friendship Horror Literature & Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Science Fiction & Fantasy Thrillers & Suspense Haunted Ghost Suspense
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This story does not make for a good audiobook. I felt really bad by giving such low ratings, because the story was doing its thing, and the performers were doing exactly what the story and their director (presumably) asked them to do. But the structure of this book destroys the story in this format.

Early on in the book are a few pages containing text messages exchanges, denoted by name, date and time. And by the time the narrator has slogged through the metadata of the text, you've stopped listening or already forgotten who is supposed to be talking, or what the previous message was about, or who is now in a private chat.

Having come to this book from Sadie by Courtney Summers, I had high hopes that this would be a similiar experience and that the format of the book would immerse me in the world. It does not. It keeps me firmly locked out.

With all that said, the story itself delivers, so save your credits and go get the ebook instead if the story appeals.

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Didn’t know the characters names at the end they made such an impression. Very boring and drawn out. Supposed to be like Blair witch. But was just a bog standard shite ghost story. I’ve literally just finished and I can’t remember what happened to the main characters already. Avoid.

Boring. Very hard to follow

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