The Day She Disappeared by Lisa Hall
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3.5 stars
Becky returns to Kirton, the island she left 16 years ago, when her friend Megan calls to tell her that her mother is dying. While everyone clearly doesn't want her to stay, with her mother dead, Becky decides not only to take her time going through her mother's things, but also dig into the mysterious disappearance of a young traveler woman from the island s year ago. Everyone on the island is convinced she walked away from her life voluntarily, but Becky, who is writing her second true crime novel, isn't so convinced. And yet more she digs, the more she's convinced that someone is covering something up. But what? Is it related to Violet's disappearance, or Becky's own dark past?
The problem with proclaiming in your subtitle that there's going to be a big, huge twist, is that going into the book, readers are primed for a big twist. And, so I figured that the "bad guy" we were being led to wasn't the bad guy at all and, yeah, that's all I'll say. It was a fairly obvious twist. And there was another smaller plot point that the author put in there to shock, but it was hinted at so much, I also guessed that one.
So, I don't know really how to rate this one. It was interesting and kept me reading, but with the twists fairly obvious and the general themes the same throughout, "No one wants you here!," "Well, I'm staying because something's wrong here!" etc., etc., it was probably 50 pages too long.
Don't get me wrong. The concept was good, but the execution was maybe a little off. It was like watching a Hallmark movie. You knew what was coming from the beginning. So, if you're ok with that, pick this one up! It's got good bones!
But if like surprises, maybe skip it.
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