Last Seen Leaving

By: Caleb Roehrig

Narrated by: Josh Hurley

Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking question he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. All eyes are on Flynn―as January's boyfriend, he must know something.

But Flynn has a secret of his own. And as he struggles to uncover the truth about January's disappearance, he must also face the truth about himself.

©2016 Caleb Roehrig (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Narrator Josh Hurley flawlessly depicts the appealing characters in this YA novel, a combination of mystery, romance, and coming-of-age elements. When sophomore Flynn comes home from school to find the police waiting to question him about his girlfriend, January, he's shocked to learn that she's missing. Hurley's Flynn sounds just like a teen telling the listener his story. His sincerity is fully believable as he reveals that his sweetly innocent relationship with January mainly involves trying to help her with her unhappy family life. (All her mother and stepfather care about is winning a political election.) Equally moving is hearing Flynn slowly accept that he's gay. Hurley's narration is spot-on, moving from light and funny to suspenseful and chilling as Flynn learns what happened to January, whom he truly loves." ( AudioFile Magazine)

would have liked to have know the main guy is gay

just saying I was not ready for the main character to be gay. otherwise good story line and a great proformance by the narrator.

Was a pretty good book!

I'll admit, there was a few times throughout the first half of this book that I thought about turning it off, I'm really glad I didn't though! It turned out to be a enjoyable book that I'm glad I read. So good that for the first time ever I'd like to that the author!

A good mystery and solid performance

This is a solid mystery with a few problems. On the positive side, this book is a well written, age-appropriate, story that captures the coming out process and reaction accurately. The resolution is just awful and illogical. All I could think about what about the fingerprints. However there is so much good in this book that I give it a positive review. This writer needs to work harder on getting resolution without cheating so much at the end.

Amazing

I couldn't stop listening, I really appreciated the growth of the characters and everything I had to stop listening I kept thinking of this book, I wanted to know what was going to happen and what happened to January.
I also appreciated the plot twists, I didn't expect that ending.

enjoyable, if a bit perplexing

it was overall a good story, the characters were likable, and the resolution of all the miscommunications was handled in a very real way that i appreciated a lot. i’m not one to finish a book if i don’t like it, and i finished this one and that says something. however, there were a few things that bothered me. there were quite a few times where Flynn would make a discovery and go on about how important it was without telling the audience what he found, which was frankly just annoying. in this book in particular Roehrig uses a lot of figurative language and big words, which isn’t always a bad thing but it was often unnecessary, not to mention the story is told from the perspective of a fifteen year old. and that’s the biggest problem i had. Flynn and January are FIFTEEN and described as doing things that just felt insane for someone that young. fifteen year olds are children and the amount of casual underage drinking in this book bordered on ridiculous. yes, obviously it happens in real life, but in the book it’s portrayed as a totally normal cool thing which just feels irresponsible. the last thing i want to point out is (MINOR SPOILER) that the youngest Kaz could possibly be is 18, Flynn is 15, and sure that’s technically only a 3 year age difference but that’s A Lot at that age. I was at one point 18 and I’ve been a freshman in college and I never once even considered dating a SOPHOMORE IN HIGH SCHOOL. because once again, 15 year olds are Still Children. (END SPOILER) despite all that the story was still enjoyable. it’s clear that Roehrig’s writing has improved since this book though as I’ve read White Rabbit and The Fell of Dark, both of which are quite good.