WE WERE NEVER HERE BY ANDREA BARTZ

WE WERE NEVER HERE BY ANDREA BARTZ

I do love a page turner.

This is the one about 30ish Emily and Kristen who take annual exotic trips and hook up with handsome backpackers. This year, in the mountains of Chile, Emily returns to their shared hotel room after giving her friend and her buddy an acceptable 45 minute window, only to discover the male buddy is dead. Crazy thing though, the same thing happened last year in Cambodia, to her own male buddy.

What are the chances? Why does this keep happening? And, can they get away with it? Questions that kept me flipping pages into the night.

This book might have hit a bit harder for me, because these seemingly disposable male companions remind me of my own sons. Specifically, the one who backpacked through Nepal and India most of last year, and Friday, is leaving on a one-way ticket to Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

It makes me think there might be another story in this scenario. One about the mother whose son goes missing.
And I think I may write it.