This book is being released tomorrow and has potential best-seller written all over it. I guess I'm one with the in crowd, because, in general, I really like best-sellers. I suppose my tastes are relatively mainstream. And I did, for the most part, like All the Missing Girls. But (isn't there always a but?) I did think it was trying too hard with its "backwards" gimmick.
In my review, I refer to having read a book with a similar ending. I'm talking about Frayed, by Kara Terzis, and I plan to post a review for *that* book this week.
Title: All the Missing Girls
Author: Megan Miranda
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date: 6/28/16
Version Reviewed: digital ARC courtesy of NetGalley
Rating: ★★★★
There's a monster lurking inside each one of us. It's just a matter of how well you hide yours. Or so would say Nicolette Ferrell. But then she has a reason to look for monsters. Girls-- two girls, to be exact-- seem to disappear from her sleepy North Carolina hometown and vanish into thin air. Ten years apart, but both connected to her in some way. And things won't be right until she knows what happened to them...
This wound up being the second book I read this week with roughly the same ending. While All the Missing Girls executed the concept better, I can't pretend it didn't take the punch out of it for me.
In case you missed it from the book blurb or any of the promotion surrounding this book, the story is told in reverse order... sort of. More like it's meant to feel like it's being told backwards, but still retains traditional plot structure. It's a device that left me wanting.
This is the kind of book that sucks you in with very readable prose and intriguing characters. It's hard to put down.
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