“What would you do if you were eight and kidnapped?” Addie Webster knows too well what she would do. Addie was only eight years old when two strangers took her from her own home. She was vanished for half her life and when she returned it was nothing like she expected. Addies life is shown threw the book Zero Day by Jan Gangsei. Just like any other great book there were many things I liked, disliked, and connections I made throughout it. During Zero Day there are many writing techniques I liked. The main technique I liked about the book was the way the author wrote it. Zero Day left you on a cliffhanger at the end if almost every chapter, so you could predict what would happen next. One example of this is at the end of chapter three it leaves you wondering by saying “And with it, the truth.” Another reason I enjoyed reading the book was it was written in third person. Zero Day was narrated by someone not in the book so you didn’t know how every character was feeling, but it hinted you towards what they were thinking. An example of this is when Addies mother was talking to her at midnight we don’t know how Addie was feeling, but at the end of the chapter it says “It was exactly what Addie needed. A reminder that her mother was nothing but a liar.” I didn’t know what Addie was feeling, but I knew that Addie was thinking about how she knew her mother was a liar. Finally, I liked that Zero Day took you back in time to some of the events Addie went through when she was