Have you ever called in an anonymous tip to the police? If you read The Monsters We Make by Kali White, you would be calling in every slow vehicle that drives by your house, anyone who ever offered your kid candy, and any house with an attic or basement. I’m not sure my kids will ever be let out of the house again after reading it. Sammy and Crystal Cox are siblings growing up in the 1980s. They live with their Mom who works two jobs and is a bit clueless. Crystal has a vision disability where she is legally blind but she writes for the school yearbook and newspaper. Following the disappearances of two paperboys from their small Midwestern town, Crystal decides it’s the perfect story to win a writing contest for a scholarship. Officer Dale Goodkind is the detective on the case who is haunted by his past. This book is gut-wrenching! We are given two possible men who are the potential monsters kidnapping the boys. Sammy and Crystal know things no one else does. They are both amazing characters. The end has me freaked out. Then I go to research the author and find out the story is based on the real disappearances of Johnny Gosch, Eugene Martin, and Marc Allen. The boys disappeared from Des Moines, Iowa between 1982 and 1986. Knowing this really happened has me even more freaked out!! I’m now going to read Kali White’s The Good Divide and The Space Between. She is supposed to have another book coming out, but I’m not sure when it is going to be released.
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