Blog Tour: Leave No Trace by Mindy Mejia
- A Book-Bound Girl
- Sep 12, 2018
- 2 min read
Lucas Blackthorn and his father are missing, presumed dead, after disappearing without a trace. A decade later, Lucas reappears and is committed to a mental health facility; while there he meets Maya Stark, the speech therapist who is assigned to his case, who has a troubled past of her own. The two get off to a rocky start, but soon form a deep connection which ultimately forces Maya to choose between Lucas and her vocation.
Throughout this novel, there were so many questions which I was desperate to discover the answers to: Who is this boy who has appeared from the wild?
Where has he been all these years? What is Maya hiding from? What happened to her mother?
I loved the depth of Maya and Lucas' characters. Both clearly have pasts which impact on their decisions, and you can see the effects of those pasts throughout the events of the book. I did find that the plot got a little tangled towards the end, however I felt that the conclusion drew all the threads together in a satisfactory way.
The plot was very original, and the action fast-paced, with some surprise twists and turns which kept me enthralled. Not all of the book was entirely realistic, for example Maya's attachment to Lucas, considering her position, was somewhat of an issue for me, as clearly she crossed many moral and ethical lines, however if you allow yourself to flow with the story you'll no doubt find, as I did, that it doesn't impact on your enjoyment of the book.
In Leave No Trace, Mindy Meija has concocted a spellbinding mystery which keeps you glued to the page. A tense and fascinating thriller set in the Minnesota wilderness, I was intrigued from start to finish. Certainly an author I will look out for in the future, and one worth reading if you haven't already.
I was lucky enough to be granted a place on the Leave No Trace blog tour; if you'd like to see what other bloggers thought of this intriguing novel, the dates and Twitter handles of everyone else involved are on the poster below!
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