The Vanishing Season (The Collector)

Book Review: The Vanishing Season In "The Vanishing Season," readers are treated to a narrative that, unfortunately, feels more like a collection of filler than a cohesive story. The book is rife with cheesy banter and relentless attempts at humor, which often distract from the main plot rather than enhance it. The constant references to trivial subjects, such as The Dress and The House, become repetitive and can leave readers wondering about their relevance to the larger narrative. Chapter 9 is particularly problematic, as nearly half of it revolves around the team's overly dramatic reprimand of Eliza for working through the night. This scene feels like an overkill that contributes little to character development or plot progression, leading to a sense of frustration rather than engagement. Additionally, the author’s inclusion of various languages without proper context disrupts the flow of the story. Readers often find themselves scrambling for Google Translate to decipher phrases that turn out to be inconsequential, taking them out of the narrative experience. Overall, "The Vanishing Season" appears to be written with a potential adaptation in mind, aiming for the style of a Netflix series. However, this approach comes at the cost of depth and substance, leaving readers yearning for a more meaningful exploration of its themes and characters. If you're in search of a compelling story with rich content, you may want to look elsewhere.

Loved the entire series

Ahhh I’m so so sad this series has ended… all these books were lovely and I’ve grown attached to the whole FBI team. Telling each book in the pov of a different team member was such a great touch, it really made you feel like you were learning each one and their relationship to each other. Now THIS story absolutely broke my heart. Out of the entire series this book managed to make me actually cry! I would highly recommend the entire series.

Oh my so sad to see this series end! I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Agents Eddison, Hanoverian, Ramirez and Sterling are back, back, back again. This time a young girl goes missing. Unfortunately she looks alot like Agent Sterling, blonde hair and blue eyes. It's also a difficult time for Eddison as his younger sister Faith went missing when he was just a teen, she also had blonde hair and blue eyes.

The team get together with some other agents and they realise there has been lots of abductions of little girls dating back to the 80s, all of the girls all have blonde hair and blue eyes.

After Eddison gets some photos from just before his sister disappeared he let's the team look through them to see if anything stands out. Turns out there is someone who is watching Faith, Eddison recognises him as Mr Davies who lived near him when he was a teen. After some digging into records it turns out Mr Davies lived near all of the missing girls.

Together the team work together a d piece together dates and places to work out where each and every girl is buried. They find all of them and yhe families get peace.

I throughly enjoyed this last book in the series. It was absolutely wonderful.