SuitabookLosing Brave
Bailee Madison
- Reading
- Because the story combines disappearance, grief, danger and romantic complications, consider checking in after major revelations and discussing Payton’s choices without treating distress as simple evidence of wrongdoing.
- Themes
- Grief and identity after disappearance: Payton is left behind after Dylan disappears and cannot remember the day it happened, while unexpected aspects of her personality emerge. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Investigation and danger: New clues involving other missing girls lead Payton to investigate, while recovering blocked memories takes her further towards danger. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Relationships outside popularity: Payton moves away from the popularity she valued, makes friends on the outskirts and grows closer to Dylan’s boyfriend. The premise places social belonging and a complicated relationship beside the mystery, without enough evidence to judge the book’s overall stance.
- Worth knowing
- The book includes a missing sister, further missing girls, a recovered body, grief, reckless behaviour, danger, intense action, a possible death, social exclusion and a troubling romance involving the sister’s boyfriend.