Review: MONDAY’S NOT COMING by Tiffany Jackson

Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. When she doesn’t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday wouldn’t just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. Not after last year’s rumors and not with her grades on the line. Now Claudia needs her best—and only—friend more than ever. But Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday’s sister April is even less help.

As Claudia digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone?

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Okay, so I’ve been wanting to read this book for what seems like ages, and when my UK pre-order finally arrived, I was ecstatic. And this book is AMAZING. Seriously. It blew me away. I can’t believe just how good it was. It’s probably my favourite read of 2018 so far.

It’s rare that I read a book that I had such high expectations for based on what I’ve heard AND it lives up to those expectations. Well, in fact, this book exceeded them BY FAR.

I loved how the different timelines are woven together, how we see the before and after of the disappearance of Monday Charles—and the effect this has on the narrator, Claudia. And wow, that twist near the end? I did not see that coming. I was speechless.

And Tiffany Jackson is an expert and creating tension, let me tell you! I just had to keep reading. Jackson is now an auto-buy author for me.

In summary, MONDAY’S NOT COMING is an emotional, poignant, and harrowing story of a girl’s disappearance and her best friend’s struggle to find out what happened to her. It covers difficult topics—child abuse, neglect, and bullying, to name a few—but in a skilled and sensitive way, all the while creating a real page-turner that had me reading well into the night.

Five stars, without a doubt.

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