Firstly the cover is beautiful.

The Day I Disappeared has all the right ingredients for an exciting story but I think the measurements are wrong. There’s not enough going on in this book. I lost interest after the plot began repeating itself. Nothing really happens. It’s all hutches and thinking that lead nowhere.

The issue is when I got to the end of the story I didn’t know much more than I knew at the beginning. I finished this book but I can’t call myself a fan.

This book was so good! The characters were so well rounded, you felt like you actually knew them! The plot was so good you didn't want the book to end!

Three months after being kidnapped, 4-year-old Holly is returned to her parents with no recollection of what happened to her during her captivity.
20 years later, another girl, the latest in a series of abductions, is kidnapped in similar circumstances and the police have reason to believe that the man who was convicted of Holly's abduction was not the real culprit.
Asked to help the police find the real perpetrator, Holly is racing against time to recover her forgotten memories before another girl dies.

The story, told from Holly's perspective, is interspersed with her comatose mother's recap of the past events.
This was a gripping read, full of twists that got me hooked very quickly.
The ending was surprising, although I was right in my suspicion about the kidnapper's identity.
However, I'm hesitating between 3 and 4 stars. The story, although it was pretty fast-paced, wasn't packed with suspense and didn't have me racing through it until the very end, and therefore I'm more inclined towards 3 stars.
Don't get me wrong, it was a very engrossing and thrilling read with some unexpected twists, and it is definitely one worth checking out.
It was my first book by Brandi Reeds but it won't be my last.

Definitely a different type of story with so many characters, that I did not remember who was who and who did what.
That being said: Holly was kidnapped twenty year ago. She was amazingly found in exactly the same place she was abducted three months later.
Her memory is blank, but she is needed to help solve the mystery of another child who has been taken all these years later.
Will she find out the truth and who is and has been involved in these crimes?

I enjoyed the writing and the premise of this story, but it definitely needs your undivided attention to follow the plot and characters.

I liked the premise of this book, being that the child kidnapping victim was returned, but I felt it was kind of confusing. There were so many characters to keep track of and side stories that didn't really contribute to the story line. The characters that should have been more developed, I felt weren't. I liked this book, but I didn't love it.

A good read and well written. However, I do think it is a bit sub par for a psychological thriller or suspense.

Detective Jason Guidry is investigating the abduction and surprising return of a little girl. The case is all too similar to that of four year old Holly Gebhardt, who was kidnapped twenty years earlier. Holly was returned to the park she was taken from three months after she was kidnapped, with almost no memory of what had happened to her. At the time, police suspected a local handyman and Holly’s own mother, Cecily, but nothing was ever proved. Holly put the event, and her mother, far behind her, but now Jason Guidry is looking to her for answers. Holly, in turn, reluctantly approaches her mother, believing the woman knows far more than she ever revealed. I really enjoyed this book, it was fast paced and surprised me more than once