Where is she??

Sadly, this really should have been a dnf. There was nothing about this book that I overtly enjoyed. The writing style charmed me at first - first person plural narration is rare for a reason, but can also be cleverly executed. And I think it was, for a little while, until it hit the walls of its own limitations and sent the narrative in circles. There's only so much story you can tell from the perspective of "we", and it invariably comes at the cost of fleshing out individual characters.

There were intermittent chapters narrated in first person singular and set at least a decade later. We got one chapter per girl, but all their voices sounded so similar and all the narratives were so mundane that "no plot just vibes" couldn't really save it.

In other words: I'm disappointed that a book about the cruelty of teenage girls and the disappearance of the teenage daughter of a preacher in a small town in Florida ended up being so...dull. This could have worked as either a short story or a skeleton on which to put much more meat, but in its current form I found it un-enjoyable and repetitive.

In lieu of this, I'd recommend reading the Virgin Suicides (which isn't terrific imo but is still a solid read), or Lullabies for Little Criminals.