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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I have to admit that the cover was the first thing that made me want to read Where the Lost Girls Go, that and the great title. So, it was a plus that the blurb made the book seem very interesting. Rookie cop Laura Mori has finally gotten her first case when a young girl crashes her car. However, this is not an open and shut case. It seemed that the body in the car doesn't belong to the owner's daughter Lucy. So, who is the dead girl in the car and where is Lucy? I really liked Laura Mori. I liked that she is new to the job, her problems with her family and that she has a crush on the neighbor guy for years and that he doesn't seem to notice that. All this made her very likable and human. The case is also interesting, especially when Mori discovers that more girls have gone missing and that Lucy's family and those are acting a bit weird. And, then there are all those kids out in the woods living there with their leader Prince (yup his name, hard to take someone serious with that nickname) Unfortunately, despite the interesting case did I feel that the story never really got really thrilling. Not boring either, it was just OK. I think the problem was that I never really got surprised over the turns of events in the book. There was no great twist. Where the Lost Girls Go is a decent book, and I would definitely read more about Laura Mori because I found her to be an interesting character. I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! The blurb sounded so interesting, car crash, mistaken identity and a new cop's first case. . . . But no. We learn virtually nothing new in the first half of the book then we did from the blurb. After that it was quite too predictable for me. Of course the first person you thought is the perp, is and the person you thought is the killer, is. The red herrings did keep it a little more interesting. After some googling i learned this is the author's first mystery novel which is why i gave it 2 instead of 1 star. She did a good job in writing, unfortunately its the same job thats been done the same way countless other times. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Rookie cop Laura Mori catches her first investigation when the fiery crash of a sports car lights up the night sky. The fire burns the car and the body within in beyond recognition, but the police are able to identify the vehicle as belonging to Kent Jameson, a celebrity author and benefactor of their small town of Sunrise Lake, Oregon. Kent Jameson fears that the body is that of his seventeen-year-old daughter Lucy, who stormed out of the house that night after an argument.The investigation takes a drastic turn, however, when the lab reports reveal that the body was not Lucy but a runaway teenager named Kyra, whose disappearance has been linked with other missing persons-more than half a dozen "lost girls" who disappeared while living on the streets of Portland. But how did Kyra come to land at the Jameson estate in rural Oregon? What was she doing driving their car? And who cut the brake lines on the vehicle?Just when Mori is making progress in the case, she comes across a suspicious lane in the forest that leads her to new evidence that will once again alter the course of the investigation and rock Sunrise Lake to its core.R. J. Noonan's electrifying mystery will resonate with fans of Lisa Gardner and Lisa Jackson. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Laura Mori is not my usual heroine. She wasn't particularly confident. She wasn't really capable of defending herself. She scared easy. She wasn't sarcastic. Or bitter. Or outspoken. And she was kind of naive. But I actually rather liked her. She wasn't any of the above things - but she was consistent and nice and determined to try to overcome her fears. She genuinely cared about the people involved in the case and wanted to do her best to help them - even when she was terrified.
The case itself wasn't thrilling. I wasn't eagerly anticipating the next page or overly surprised with any of the twists. But like Laura Mori, it was steady and consistent and it kept my attention. I'll definitely pick up the rest of the series. ( )