Publisher: Recorded Books
Publication date: August 2010
Length: 9 hrs
Source: Audiobook from Library
Series: The Missing, Book 3
After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their journey goes dangerously awry, they realize that they may be in over their head. They've landed in the wrong time period. Andrea doesn't seem that interested in leaving the past. And even worse, it appears that someone has deliberately sabotaged their mission...
Things I Liked:
I'm always up for fun time travel adventures that help me learn more about history. This series is pretty entertaining with a unique premise that keeps you invested in the characters. I definitely knew next to nothing about the Roanoke colony, so this was really interesting to learn more about. In fact, I think reading anything about such a strange historical mystery would be interesting. The ending will definitely leave you dying to know what happens next. The narrator, Chris Sorensen, was good, but not outstanding.
Things I Didn't Like:
I think that this is one book that reminded me why I am not the target audience for MG reads. The plot twists were ridiculously obvious and I really, really wanted to smack Jonah for being so slow! He always took ridiculously long catching on to social cues and what was happening. Admittedly, this happens often enough that the other characters make mention of it, so it is probably intentional. But it really annoyed me continually and I couldn't enjoy it much when I was so constantly bothered. I'll probably keep reading the series, though, just to see what happens next (and what annoying person from history Jonah is).
Read-alikes:
Not much I can think of (sorry, feeling brain dead :)
Start with the first two books, Found and Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix
BOOK CONTENT RATINGS:
s-factor: none
that I recall
mrg-factor: none
v-factor: ->
a little bit of fighting
Overall rating: ***
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is a story about Jonah, who grew up knowing he was adopted and not thinking much of it. When he and his friend Chip start receiving strange letters about how they are "missing," they think it is just a prank. Until Chip learns he's adopted too. They are soon caught up in a strange and dangerous search to figure out just what happened to them before they were adopted.
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