Vanessa was a bookstagrammer, and there’s a lot of fun book life comments, in thin story about loss. V sends comforting text responses, in a familiar voice, but virtual V doesn’t know any more than Bailey does about the end of Vanessa’s life. It’s an idea I’ve seen before in fiction, a bit like the social-media afterlife program in Still Here, and it’s believable, because Bailey’s mom works in tech, and Bailey has her own coding skills. She adds her all messages to and from Vanessa to create a chatbot, V, with Vanessa’s personality and memories. Desperate to talk to Vanessa again and find out what could have happened on the night she died, Bailey secretly copies her mom’s project and begins updating it. If Vanessa was driving from Bailey’s house to go meet up with her boyfriend, like she said she was going to do, then she was on a very strange road when she crashed…īailey’s mom once worked on a program that would take a person’s emails and chats to create an AI. But even in her grief, there’s just one thing that keeps coming up. When Vanessa dies in a random, tragic car crash after leaving Bailey’s house, naturally Bailey is miserable. In the beginning of Message Not Found, by Dante Medema, Bailey and Vanessa are high school besties, with so many private jokes and rituals, sure to be lifelong friends.
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