2.5 of 5 Stars
"Mumbler, Mumbler, in your bed, Mumbler, Mumbler, take your head, Eat your nose, Gobble your toes, And bury you where the milkweed grows."
The Missing Season is marketed as a young adult thriller novel with a hint of horror where children go missing every October at the hands of a mysterious monster named The Mumbler.

For me, this book didn't hit the mark because I am such a huge horror and thriller junkie. I really wanted to love this book as it seemed like the perfect storm for someone like me!
The main issues I have with this novel is that it read more like a YA contemporary novel rather than the thriller/horror novel that it seems to be marketed as. The Mumbler is just glazed over and never really fleshed out as a full scary monster, so I never feared it. While the characters were, one dimensional, and I didn’t feel connected to them. There is a romance subplot integrated into the novel, but it was very instalovey, and I couldn’t get on board with it.

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