“Some people’s good always coincides with other people’s evil, but the opposite is also true.”
The Vanished Ones is the second book of the Mila Vasquez series, preceded by The Whisperer, Carrisi’s first work. The Vanished Ones is the third work. We can see an evolution of his writing, especially on human interactions.
Carrisi received a fan’s email explaining that he was exasperated and tired with the life we were having, so he simply vanished from the face of the earth.
In this book, Mila, and Missing People’s detective, is called to solve a murder committed by a man, who disappeared without leaving a trace 17 years before.
After what happened with the Whisperer’s case, Mila tries to struggle to move on as darkness keeps pulling her back. So, she decides to stay in Limbo (Missing People’s Department).
It’s a slow start and a bit confusing with all the information and twists but we have to keep in mind how brilliant and creative Carrisi’s mind really is – there’s a reason for it.
Eventually, all starts to make sense and it reveals to be a intrinsic web of organized crime.
Is worth acknowledging that this book, for having social exclusion and depression, become a bit introspective without making the reader bored.
Carrisi is able to build a genius plot, with good character construction and decent environmentalization.
The raw pain that the characters felt by fighting against darkness hits us hard. It’s almost palpable pain.
Carrisi puts the Hypothesis of Evil on the table – a good deed could lead to a bad repercussion or a good one. It all depends of our conscient or inconscient decision when it’s presented. And because of it, it’s impossible to have Good and Bad in absolute. A baby isn’t born hating the mother. All is instilled in us and we have the power of circumstance to change our behaviour, even if it could have influence someone. It’s a cycle and Good and Evil coexist and are intertangled.
The book has a single timeline and we count on a third person narrative from Mila’s point of view. Her flow of conscience is well constructed and explained.
Compared to The Whisperer, this one has fewer forensic procedures and psychological/scientific facts.
The ending doesn’t disappoint us, clear as water and has an astounding brilliant plot twist, leaving us wanting more.
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