You Must Not Miss, Katrina Leno
You Must Not Miss, Katrina Leno
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You Must Not Miss

Author: Katrina Leno

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/23/2019


Synopsis

One of Us Is Lying meets Carrie in this suspenseful story of friendship, family, and revenge.
Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day after her family self-destructed. The day her father ruined her mother's life. The day Eryn, Magpie's sister, skipped town and left her to fend for herself. The day of Brandon Phipp's party.
Now Magpie is called a slut in the hallways of her high school, her former best friend won't speak to her, and she spends her lunch period with a group of misfits who've all been as socially exiled as she has. And so, feeling trapped and forgotten, Magpie retreats to her notebook, dreaming up a magical place called Near.
Near is perfect - a place where her father never cheated, her mother never drank, and Magpie's own life never derailed so suddenly. She imagines Near so completely, so fully, that she writes it into existence, right in her own backyard. At first, Near is a peaceful escape, but soon it becomes something darker, somewhere nightmares lurk and hidden truths come to light. Soon it becomes a place where Magpie can do anything she wants...even get her revenge.
You Must Not Miss is an intoxicating, twisted tale of magic, menace, and the monsters that live inside us all.


About Katrina Leno

Katrina Leno was born on the East Coast and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including You Must Not Miss, Horrid, and Sometime in Summer. The Umbrella Maker's Son is her middle grade debut. She has always loved the rain.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie on September 12, 2020

ARC given to me by my amazingly kind friend - Kayla! at Books & Blends! “You felt so deeply, and for so long, that your very sadness grew limbs and walked away from you. You have moved mountains, Magpie Lewis, and you are only just getting started.” Katrina Leno is truly a gift to this wor......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on December 07, 2019

Here comes: one slap for the money of the bullies! Two slaps for the show of fake and mean friends who abandon you when the crisis hits the fan! Three slaps for getting ready and slap more the neglecting parents including alcoholic mother, cheater father (with your wife’s sister, what a scumbag), self......more

Goodreads review by Lala on June 12, 2019

Katrina Leno's best. TBH I don't think this book is going to be for everyone, but oooh boy was it just my perfect taste. This book is odd and unsettling- Magpie is going through a ROUGH time in life, so she escapes to her own little world, and uses this opportunity to enact revenge on those who've w......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on April 09, 2019

This book was bizarre and strange and I have no idea how to even begin to write a review so just know that I REALLY, really liked it. If you’re someone who likes weird books that defy genres and don’t make a ton of sense (in a good way u feel me), read this book. TW: sexual assault, adultery......more


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Praise for You Must Not Miss:A 2020 CCBC Choice
* "Leno (Summer of Salt, 2018, etc.), channeling early Stephen King at his best, offers no neat conclusions, and her frank examination of depression, grief, alcoholism, and the ruinous aftermath of sexual assault, is grim yet effective. Readers will ponder this exceedingly creepy gut punch of a tale long after turning the last page."
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

* "Compelling and harrowing.... Leno doesn't shy away from challenging themes... and she brings lyrically haunting language to a story filled with inherent darkness."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

* "Leno (Summer of Salt, 2018) takes a concept...and executes it with beautiful, brutal precision. Between the lines of spare and dreamlike prose lurks a girl who, though quiet at first, demands to be seen, and readers will not soon forget her."—Booklist (starred review)

"This unusual blend of realistic fiction, fantasy, and mayhem begs debate wherever it is read! Stock more than one copy."—VOYA

"A little bit Coraline, a little bit Stephen King.... A frank, unflinching look at grief, rage, depression, and how pain manifests as cruelty. You must not miss You Must Not Miss."—Mackenzie Vanengelenhoven, King's English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT)

"A mind-bender of a book."—Rosie Lee, Readers Books (Sonoma, CA)