The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston
Published: Disney-Hyperion (May 14th, 2013)
Reading Level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 320 pages
Series: The Rules for Disappearing, #1
Rating: 4 of 5 stars
Summary:
She’s been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky.. But now that she’s been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her last.
Witness Protection has taken nearly everything from her. But for now, they’ve given her a new name, Megan Rose Jones, and a horrible hair color. For the past eight months, Meg has begged her father to answer one question: What on earth did he do – or see – that landed them in this god-awful mess? Meg has just about had it with all the Suits’ rules — and her dad’s silence. If he won’t help, it’s time she got some answers for herself.
But Meg isn’t counting on Ethan Landry, an adorable Louisiana farm boy who’s too smart for his own good. He knows Meg is hiding something big. And it just might get both of them killed. As they embark on a perilous journey to free her family once and for all, Meg discovers that there’s only one rule that really matters — survival.
Review:
I loved that The Rules for Disappearing was something that I had never seen in a story. A family is forced to give up their identities and move around constantly due to some secret thing her dad did or knows.
In this story we meet Meg, who has just moved into a new town with her family and must, again, get used to being a new person. It seems that they have to end up moving a lot so it's getting harder to keep the facts straight about their"lives". And she worries about her little sister's ability to do this over and over.
Meg tries to distance herself from all people because she knows that in the end, she will have to leave them just like every other time. But she never expected to meet someone like Ethan, a popular guy who seems to not fully believe her back story. He keeps pointing out these inconsistancies and it makes Meg nervous that he will find out her secret.
I really found myself enjoying each character we meet in this story. They were very well developed and fun to get to know.
Although there is romance in this story, there's also a ton of mystery surrounding what happened. I was a bit surprised to find out what led to their family being in the Witness Protection Program. I was really glad to see that this series is continuing. A blurb hasn't been released yet but I'll be waiting to see what happens next!
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