Vanishing Act

Vanishing Acts starts out feeling like a quiet, everyday story… and then it slowly turns into something way heavier than you expect.

Delia has what looks like a stable life—good job, fiancé, daughter—and then out of nowhere, her dad gets arrested for kidnapping her when she was a kid. That’s when everything starts to unravel, and you realize she doesn’t actually know her own past the way she thought she did.

What really stuck with me was how messy this book is—in the best way. There’s no clear “good guy vs bad guy.” You’re constantly questioning things like… can someone do something wrong for the right reasons? And what happens when the person you trust most is at the center of it?

It’s definitely more of a slow, emotional read than a thriller. Some parts dragged a bit (especially the legal stuff), but I didn’t really mind because the character dynamics were so layered. You really feel how torn Delia is, and it makes you just as unsure as she is.