This book was received as an ARC from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group - Imprint in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

My jaw dropped so wide that I had difficulty closing and recovering. This book is heart-racing, haunting and twisted like no other book has. Also due to their mother's fame, Manon and Thais use their social media accounts to acquire the disappearance of their mother but soon realize that not only will they not expect the results they want but they are putting their lives in danger too creating a whole new scandal with so many twists and turns that I was surprised I did not have a heart attack. I know our patrons will be excited for the release of this book and hopefully experience the thrill-ride for themselves.

We will consider adding this title to our YA Collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

I can't quite put my finger on why White Fox didn't impress me, but...it didn't. The writing itself was...fine. Elegant, in a lot of ways, but some turns of phrase completely overdone. I rolled my eyes at more than a few completely ridiculous metaphors.

The pacing, for one. I suppose was supposed to be a "slow burn" just felt like trudging for the first 50% of the book. Switching between Manon and Tai's POVs--who have identical voices, so I would often lose track of whose chapter I was reading--didn't help that at all, since they'd have to constantly catch each other up on what we, as an audience, already knew. And the ending--so meh. The author solved the mystery, sure, but didn't give us anyway to get there with her. It's like she was saying "Haha! Its magically solved because of these reasons! Aren't I clever?"

And the characters. A minor nitpick, but something that bugged me the WHOLE book: I don't understand why the author made the characters teenagers. It didn't help--arguably harmed--the plot. It felt like someone on the writer's team wanted to be able to argue this could be marketed as YA someday, and at the last minute, persuaded her to age them down. /endrant. Manon and Tai were kind of insufferable characters as it was, and maybe that's just not the protagonists I wanted. They're immature, whiny, and they spend a lot of the book sleeping, drunk, on medication, or otherwise incapacitated. They stumbled from one "clue" to another, which was really just the author ex-machina'd them all over.


I dunno. Great atmosphere, meh on everything else. If you like Gothicy stuff or "domestic thrillers," maybe you'd like it.

Most if what was good about this book was negated by the stupid actions of the insipid heroines. They both spent more time talking about how hurt they were at not having been given information than actually seeking information. Further, each time one of them came close to some kind of answer, they indulged in a perverse need to flee and then had to go talk to whomever again later. There were a number of interesting v's, x's, and the occasional surprise t or k, so that was something.

Thais, and Manon two sister that are nothing alike. Yet they do have one passion to discover what happened to their mother, a beautiful actress who disappeared ten years before.
They believe she may even still be alive. After receiving a letter from their deceased father, they are determined more than ever to find out what happened. Their father agrees in his letter. They return to where they grew up looking for answers.
What they discover is dark, mysterious and dangerous. There is someone following them. They also discover that the pharmaceutical company their father started will have no part of them. Any shares or part they may have owned has been reabsorbed by the company when their father asked to step down. His lifes work is gone. There is nothing to show for all the long hours he dedicated.
As they become more invested in trying to find their mother, their very lives may be in danger. There is so much to uncover.
An intriguing, engrossing, engaging read. You are invested from the first word!