ISBN: 9781416575405
Grade: F
Technically this book was started in November, but it has taken this long to finish. The grade speaks for itself. This is hands down the worst book I have read since the abominations known as My Sister's Keeper, The Time Traveler's Wife, and The Weird Sisters. The book felt like a lot of tell and no show. Don't tell me this and that happened and then this happened. Show me what happens instead. You know the concept that every English teacher from the junior high level and up preaches. The writing also felt really disjointed almost like each chapter was an afterthought.
The book's premise sounded fantastic. Overprotective parent Kyra and David Winter have a young son who disappears from their backyard one afternoon. Each parent has someone they suspect of taking their son, and each has some serious skeletons in the closet. What I expected was a gripping page turner about family secrets. What I got was chapter after chapter of random characters with no continuity from the previous chapter's character or timeline. This happened, that happened, this happened again, and finally this girl (me) got bored and no longer cared what happened to the little boy. My interest faded after 50 pages and there was nothing in the remaining pages that made me glad I finished the rest.
If anyone else has read this and liked it, please tell me what I'm missing. There was so much hype about this book that I just cannot understand. This could have been a decent book in the hands of a different writer or at the very least a different editor. Definitely not recommended.
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