Together ‘Reservoir 13’ and ‘The Reservoir Tapes’ are like a kaleidoscope, in which the second book fills in some of the missing colored bits from the first one. Still centered around the disappearance of thirteen-year-old Becky Shaw, this book looks at various of the townspeople she encountered in the days before her disappearance, filling in their backstories in ways the chronological first book could not. It’s a fascinating technique that builds on the first book’s story of how life goes on, to show how life and relationships stop, too.