Blog tour ~ book review: The Vanishing of Class 3B by Jackie Kabler + a giveaway for UK residents

4⭐
Genre ~ mystery thriller
Publication date ~ May 11, 2023
Page Count ~ 353
Audio length ~ 10 hours 5 minutes
Narrator ~ Ashley Tucker
POV ~ multiple 3rd
Featuring ~ police procedural, secrets

I am delighted to be on this blog tour ~ thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources for organizing.

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My review:

Ah my mama heart. As terrible as it sounds I do like a missing child plot and in this one we have 10 missing children and 4 missing adults.

Our main narrators are parents: Reynold, Clare & Ben. Olivia is headmaster of Littleford Primary School and Sadie & Daniel are our detectives. We hear from one of the teachers in The Bunker and The Visitor too. And excitingly we hear from one of the children, Luca, to ease our pounding hearts just a little to let us know what’s going on where they are, but in turn it decreased the suspense since we knew they were okay.

There are so many different POV’s that it does have some repetition, but I wasn’t too bothered by that because we are slowly given little nuggets about why the children might have been kidnapped. Some things were pretty predictable and I wasn’t thrilled with the 2 similar secrets from the parents. And the secret that started this all, while on the terrible side, was not really groundbreaking IMO.

On to the police ~ I could just feel how tired they were from working nonstop, but do I feel they could’ve been a little quicker and a smidgen more thorough. I won’t give much away, but this could have been wrapped up quicker than it was. They made a few questionable choices as well.

Overall, not perfect, but enjoyable and fast paced. The ending was rather surprising.

Cover gripe ~ there are 2 options, but I’m not in love with either. Maybe the school bus one if I had to choose, but I’d have liked it to look like the one described. I do like that the yellow lettering matches the lock though.

*Thanks to Jackie Kabler, Rachel’s Random Resources, One More Chapter and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head off on a much-anticipated day trip.

But as night falls and the well-heeled parents – one or two of them famous, as well as wealthy – wait at the school to collect their weary offspring, it soon becomes clear that something has gone very wrong.

The children and their teachers simply do not come back.

What’s happened doesn’t seem possible.

How can an entire class of children simply vanish?

Purchase Links

UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vanishing-Class-3B-bestselling-breath-taking-ebook/dp/B0B9SFVY9W

US – https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Class-3B-bestselling-breath-taking-ebook/dp/B0B9SFVY9W

Author Bio – Jackie Kabler is an Amazon number one and USA Today bestselling author of psychological thrillers, including The Perfect Couple, Am I Guilty?, The Happy Family and The Murder List. Her novels have sold nearly a million copies around the world and have been translated into eight languages. Previously she worked as a newspaper reporter and then in television news for twenty years, including nearly a decade on GMTV. She later appeared on BBC and ITV news, presented a property show for Sky, hosted sports shows on Setanta Sports News and worked as a media trainer for the Armed Forces. She now combines writing with working as a presenter on shopping channel QVC. Jackie lives in Gloucestershire with her husband.

Social Media Links –

Twitter @jackiekabler

Instagram @officialjackiekabler

Giveaway to Win a Signed Copy of The Vanishing of Class 3B (Open to UK Only)

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