Sent (The Missing, Book 2) - Teen Time Travel Adventure Novel for Young Adults | Perfect for Book Clubs & Classroom Reading

The second book in Haddix's series rejoins the characters in the 15th century. While the end of the first book propelled the reader anxiously into book two, the reader's arrival there is anticlimactic.The plot becomes weighted with somewhat confusing scenes of tracer beings and historical anomalies. I am even more certain now that this text does not meet its identified audience. The book is marketed to readers who are too young for it. While the characters are 12, the text's readers must be several years older to deal with the plot twists and complex explanations. It is this complexity and its resulting confusion that makes the book a disappointment. The need for these explanations into tracers and historical records does not allow the reader to come out of book one and hit the ground running as hoped. I can only look forward to book three and anticipate that it will move more rapidly and suspensefully because it will not require any further explanations of tracers and Elucidators.