Message Not Found, Dante Medema
Message Not Found, Dante Medema
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Message Not Found

Author: Dante Medema

Narrator: Tara Sands, Taylor Meskimen, Jane Oppenheimer, Sandy Rustin, Vikas Adam

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2022


Synopsis

An emotionally complex portrayal of secrets, loss, and grief from Dante Medema, Indies Introduce author of the Indie Next Pick title The Truth Project. Bailey and Vanessa shared everything: laughter, secrets, and packets of Pop Rocks to ward off bad days. But that all changed the night Vanessa left Bailey’s, headed for home, and ended up swerving off a cliff nowhere near her house. Now Bailey, who thought she knew Vanessa better than anyone in the world, is left with a million unanswered questions, and the only person with answers is gone.To help grieve her loss, Bailey creates a chat bot of Vanessa using years’ worth of their shared text messages and emails. The more data she uploads to the bot, the more it feels like she’s really talking to her best friend. That is, until the bot starts dropping hints that there was more going on with Vanessa than Bailey realized—a secret so big, it may have contributed to Vanessa’s death.This compelling puzzle of a story, filled with engrossing twists and turns, is written in alternating prose and text message formats. Teens will gobble up this fast-paced novel.

About Dante Medema

Dante Medema is an author of books for young readers. Her debut novel, The Truth Project, was an Indies Introduce title and an Indies Next List Pick. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska, with her husband, four daughters, and a room full of alien memorabilia—and books, of course. When she’s not writing, she dabbles in baking, decorating, painting, sewing, and reading up on Enneagram personality types. To learn more about Dante, visit her online at dantemedema.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelsey (munnyreads) on July 27, 2022

NOT ME CRYING OVER BOB ROSS AND POP ROCKS.......more

Goodreads review by Dante on September 19, 2021

Hey! I wrote this book! I wrote this book before I even knew I would need it. More details to come. <3......more

Goodreads review by anushka ♡ on July 21, 2022

2.5☆ I have mixed feelings about this book. I found the plot intriguing, it was going okay but then as it progressed, it felt underwhelming. I like how it dealt with grief and so much confusion and doubt that came along with it, but the whole conclusion of what happened left me with this unsettled fe......more

Goodreads review by lily on June 06, 2022

im not really sure how i feel about this. i think it was very well written and had a very important message, and the whole story was very beautiful. however, i found myself getting a bit bored because it felt like there wasn’t a whole lot going on. i went into this thinking it would be a mystery/thr......more

Goodreads review by Beary Into Books on July 30, 2021

Rating 5 I loved this book. This book will take your emotions on a roller coaster and when it’s time to get off you will stay seated to go again. Bailey and Vanessa were friends since they were little and they shared absolutely everything with one another. They weren’t just friends, they were practic......more