The Return
A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut. Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return--except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She's right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she's been or what happened to her. Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong--she's emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who--or what--is she?
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I can relate to each member of the friend group at the center of The Return at some point in my life. Protagonist Elise doesn't want to let go of a friendship that clearly over. Julie wants to drag Elise down with her, because she also can't face that it's time to let go. Mae wants to classify everyone else into neat little boxes that fit her idea of them. Molly sticks around out of some sort of guilty obligation. It's not a lighthearted book - but it is horror after all.....The most horrifying part of which is the reality that Harrison captures here: life is messy. Female friendships, even moreso.
Update: the more time goes on, the more this book has stuck with me. I finished it a month ago and I am still thinking about it. Upped my review to 5 stars because of this.
Update: the more time goes on, the more this book has stuck with me. I finished it a month ago and I am still thinking about it. Upped my review to 5 stars because of this.
A group reunion doesn’t go as expected in some sinister ways.
I love a story the tests a friendship, especially when it’s tested by the unknown.
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