Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: September 2019
Once a year, the path appears in the forest and Lucy Gallows beckons. Who is brave enough to find her--and who won't make it out of the woods?
It's been exactly one year since Sara's sister, Becca, disappeared, and high school life has far from settled back to normal. With her sister gone, Sara doesn't know whether her former friends no longer like her...or are scared of her, and the days of eating alone at lunch have started to blend together. When a mysterious text message invites Sara and her estranged friends to "play the game" and find local ghost legend Lucy Gallows, Sara is sure this is the only way to find Becca--before she's lost forever. And even though she's hardly spoken with them for a year, Sara finds herself deep in the darkness of the forest, her friends--and their cameras--following her down the path. Together, they will have to draw on all of their strengths to survive. The road is rarely forgiving, and no one will be the same on the other side.
I have been looking for a good YA horror/thriller for a while. I definitely found it in Rules for Vanishing. Honestly, it's best to go into the book not knowing a whole lot about the plot. Basically, Sara's sister disappeared a year before. Sara is convinced Becca disappeared on a mysterious road that only appears once a year. Determined to find her, she and a group of friends set out to find the road.
This was a really creepy book. I was on edge throughout the story. There are a lot of twists and surprises. I found myself questioning what was actually happening multiple times. The characters were interesting and I genuinely cared about what happened to them. What I loved was that they were not the usual stereotypes of teens that we tend see in a lot of these types of books. That was pretty refreshing. I really liked how the story was told through multiple perspectives and interviews. It made the story more interesting.
I highly recommend this one if you are looking for a good thriller that will mess with your mind.
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