Leave No Trace by Mindy MejiaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The woods are lovely,dark and deep,but I have promises to keep,and miles to go before I sleep.
There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of glacial lakes and untouched forests called The Boundary Waters. Ten years ago Josiah Blackthorn and his nine year old son Lucas trekked into the wilderness and never returned.
They were presumed dead but now,a decade later....Lucas has suddenly reappeared. Discovered while ransacking a outfitter store,he was violent and uncommunicative and has been sent to a psychiatric facility. Twenty three year old Maya Stark,the assistant language therapist who has issues and secrets of her own is charged with making a connection with their high profile patient. But no matter what she tries,Lucas refuses to reveal where his father is or anything about the last ten years of his life.
The more time that Maya spends with her mysterious patient,the more she becomes obsessed with the enematic young man. Maya has worked hard to escape her past and rebuild her life but how much of her life is she prepared to put at risk to help Lucas reunite with his missing father
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within is.
Told almost entirely from Maya`s point of view,this is a beautifully written tale of love,lose,mental health,abandonment and finding peace and forgiveness.Maya was a complex,feisty character who I had a lot of admiration for but also struggled to like at times due to the way she treated her Dad and also her boss/mentor Dr Mehta.Maya did things without stopping to think about the repercussions and how her actions affected other people. Interspersed throughout the story was chapters from Josiah Blackthorn`s point of view that covered his life and the events leading up to his and Lucas`s disappearance into the wilderness. I really felt so much empathy for poor Josiah,he obviously loved Lucas very much and was only doing everything in his power to give his son a good life but life and events just seemed to conspire against him. But why had he taken Lucas and fled into the wilderness? Why had Lucas suddenly reappeared? Why was Maya so intent on helping Lucas? The stunning settings and atmosphere played a big part in this story. It was almost like they were characters in their own rights,Mindy Mejia`s descriptions were so vivid,you could close your eyes and imagine yourself wandering through the trees or lying down and looking up at the stars and constellations in the clear cloudless sky. I personally would have liked there to have been more chapters covering Maya and Lucas`s trek through the wilderness and less chapters about the psychiatric facility.
Leave No Trace is a mesmerising,fast paced mystery that had some unexpected twists,intense danger moments and held my attention throughout. The secondary characters were all well rounded and realistic and the ending was unpredictable and open to personal interpretation. I really enjoyed this gripping,intreguing thriller and would happily read more books by this author in the future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
My name is Mindy Mejia and I’m a writer. I write because, ever since I was six years old, my favorite game has been pretend. My life doesn't have symmetry, theme, symbolism, or meditated beauty and I gravitate toward these things like a houseplant to the sun. I love the perfect words; I love how “fierce” and “confounded” and “swagger” look on the page and how my chest expands when I read them. I write because I believe in the reality of my fantasies, the truth in my fabrications. I’ve always had stories sneaking around my head, thrillers like THE DRAGON KEEPER and EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE, and sometimes I inhabit those stories more than my own life. (Best not to mention that last part to my husband, kids, or boss.)
SOCIAL MEDIA
Website : https://www.MindyMejia.com
Twitter : @MejiaWrites
PUBLICATION DATE : 4th September 2018
PUBLISHER : Quercus Books
GENRE : Crime,Thriller & Mystery
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leave-No-Trace-Better-disappear/dp/1786489775/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536786617&sr=1-1&keywords=leave+no+trace
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