Local Woman Missing

Once again, here I am, an outlier. Most of my friends here enjoyed it, but I did not. First the positives: I loved the beginning. Sorry, that's it, there's only one positive that I can come up with. Now the negatives: If I listed all the implausible actions, reactions, events, scenarios, and conclusion......more

I knew I Shouldn’t Have Read This! Local Woman Missing is about two missing women who went missing from an affluent neighborhood 11 years ago. In the present, a teenage girl who has escaped from captivity has a startling connection to the missing women. Narrated by Kate, Meredith, and Leo, I found al......more

DNF - The writing style is not for me. The sentence structure is so simple, yet the content is overly dramatic and irrelevantly descriptive. Here is the exact scene when I realized this book is not for me: The doorbell rings. It takes the character two whole pages (ten paragraphs) to walk over and op......more

Wow, what a ride! My heart was pounding – thump, thump, thump! I think I fell in love with the first 200 pages of this book. I was even inspired to write a song about it (a thriller song seems more fitting!) because this book had me on edge, constantly guessing the characters’ connections, and scram......more

It’s time for some Mary Kubica math! 100 = Target score. Also, if this author writes a thriller there’s a 100% chance I’ll want to read it. +20 = Prologue. A woman knows her husband is cheating on her, but that’s a-okay because she’s cheating on him too. She goes out for “a run” to meet her current si......more