Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Catch You Later by Jessica Strawser


 My thoughts

I enjoyed this book so much. This author took two characters, best friends, and made them real. Made me like them. Made them part of my life in a way. I rooted for them to find each other again. If only... 

Two young women who have been friends their whole lives, Lark and Nikki. Both from similar backgrounds. Both having lost their parents in one way or the other. They have been the best of friends always. Working at a store together. One expecting a baby and the other expecting a way out of this town. 

Along comes a man who can take Mikki away for a while. They don't know each other at all but for some crazy reason Mikki trusts Chris to be a good guy. She doesn't think twice about going to Florida with him to a wedding as his plus one. What could possibly go wrong? 

Lark begged Mikki not to go. Or to at least take her cell phone. Lark needed Mikki to be there when her baby is born. She's alone and afraid. She has no one. Not even the baby's father. Mikki is not there. She doesn't return from this road trip with a stranger.

For eight years Lark has wondered what happened. She tried hard to find her best friend. The cops were of little help since Mikki went on her own. She wasn't forced. Lark had her baby. A little girl she named Dove. She's living with Mikki's grandmother Nini now and they are trying to be a family. Though everyone it seems blames Lark for Mikki's disappearance. Then in walks the stranger who took Mikki away eight years earlier.

From this point on you will be on the edge. Wondering where things are headed. If you'll find out what truly happened that day. The day Mikki was suppose to start home. Was suppose to return to her life and her best friend. 

This book is excellent. It has some pretty strong feels going one and a few scares. Told from the time Mikki went away in 2016 to when Lark meets Chris again in 2024. I love how the author cleared everything up. How the story played out. How Lark finally found her own happiness and closure. This was such a good story.

Thank you #NetGalley, #LakeUnionPublishing, for this ARC. This is my own true thoughts about this book.

About

One impulsive decision changes the lives of two best friends forever in a powerful novel of suspense by the USA Today bestselling author of The Last Caretaker.

If Lark and Mikki didn’t have each other, they’d have nothing in this miserable town. So the best friends stick together, working night shift at the highway travel stop, going nowhere fast. Until a stranger drops in, heading for Florida, and Mikki impulsively leaves with him, never to be seen again.

Eight years later, Lark is finally getting her life back together for the sake of her young daughter and Mikki’s lovably prickly grandma, who can no longer care for herself. People have almost stopped blaming Lark for Mikki’s disappearance, and she’s engaged to the nicest guy on highway patrol. But when the stranger who drove Mikki away reappears and asks for her, nobody knows what to believe.

As the search reignites, Lark fights to find out whether Mikki is really missing or doesn’t want to be found. But piecing together the chain of events set into motion that fateful night could threaten everything—and everyone—Lark has left.

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