Date: July 30, 2025
Author: Lisa Unger
Title: Last Girl Ghosted
Ghosted definition, (Google confirmed) page 217-218 ‘It means one thing now. But once it was used to describe the event in which a person takes the identity of another person of about the same age who has died. The living fraudster then slips into the life of the deceased person and takes on that identity.’
Very well done Mz. Unger! You are part of my amends reading, (I may have judged the last book of hers I read a bit to harshly) and oh. My! You have made me happy I did! This story caught me right from the jump.
The monologue of this manuscript reminded me very much of the Netflix series You. As though Wren were telling this account to the man that left her ghosted.
Wren came from a traumatic past, having been raised by ‘hill people’ while preparing for the fall of man with a father that had his own PTSD leftover from his tours of war. Though he returned home to her mom, she was left stuck in the past, loving the ghost of the man that left her for war and never came back.
As a grown woman, Wren took all she had learned from her multitude of life lessons in order to be the best anonymous advice columnist she could, calling it Dear Birdie. Cheeky. Right?
When her bestie decided to get her set her up on a popular dating site Wren had very little hope of actually finding the one. But has she? And how after having stole her heart could he drop off the face of the earth? Leaving her ghosted. And why is this private investigator asking her so many questions? Accusing date-app-boy of being behind the disappearance of 3 other girls, all of whom date-app-boy met through the very same dating app as Wren met him.
Can the mystery be cracked before it’s too late and Wren runs out of time?