Customer Reviews
Flies off the pages... - By: LittleReader, 05 Oct 2008 
I reallly enjoyed this novel. A fascinating concept - that a teenage girl wakes up one morning to find her entire family has gone. Just disappeared without a trace...And then she has to wait 25 years & to the making of a documentary about her life to find out the truth.
Fast paced, with excellent three-dimensional characters, I raced through this book in no time - it is truly unputdownable! I've heard a lot said that it's 'far-fetched' & has 'unecessary twists' & though this may be true, it is still great story-telling. I do feel that it's believable enough to hold your interest & the outcome, though given away a little easily, is worth the wait.
Highly recommended...
No time to do anything except making time to read this book! - By: R. Shanahan, 30 Sep 2008 Fans of Harlen Coben will love this book. Its very entertaining & will not disappoint. It has everything especiallly the one thing i always look for & thats humour. Like Coben its very family orientated & children/parents relationships are very important.
Nice start, shame about the end - By: Jay Kellerman, 29 Sep 2008 
Great start to the story, draws you in, leads to great expectations...then lets you down with a very predictable & disappointing ending ..which you think .. this can't be! The characters are initiallly good but are increasingly unbelievable & dissolve into what seems to be the author trying to tie everything up to the conclusion rather than coming up with an exciting ending. Pity it wasn't a better ending, which would have led to a 5 star book.
Great book...BUT.. - By: Dostoyevsky's desk, 29 Sep 2008 I enjoyed this book throughout: great pace, characterization dealt with deftly (mostly through dialogue & interaction, which gave you a feel for them beyond background & description), lots of twists & changes & nail-biting moments... & a GREAT central thread. You just have to know why a whole family has disappeared. However....
**PLOT SPOILER** The plot jumps forward twenty-five years from that fateful day & a private investigator is callled in some months down the line. Within forty-eight hours he's discovered that there's no social security or tax records for the girl's father. Now, the thing is many PI's are retired or ex-policemen. These would have been the first two things the police would have checked (and discovered) twenty-five years back. I think this is a major faux pas (or 'fox pass' as it's termed in the book) that LB should have picked up on.
Possibly it's just me from dealing regularly with the police & court systems for my work, or having read more Coben, Grisham, Lehane & Pelecanos than is perhaps healthy. But if you want to drop me a line before penning your next one, LB, I can make sure you don't make a similar foot fault.
But, apart from that, as I say, very, very good (would have been a decided 5 stars apart from that). Harlan has got some serious competition for once.
Keeps you transfixed - By: Bezerus Bezby, 28 Sep 2008 
Well, I can see from the range of reviews for this book that it doesn't score highly with those seeking a literary masterpiece, but does with those who enjoy a fast paced thriller. I enjoy both sorts of books, but I suppose it also depends on how you define a literary masterpeice. In my eyes, this is almost it- fast paced, likable main characters & a plot full of twists & turns to the very end.
Plot has been covered by other reviewers, but I have to say that I found the method of using Cynthia's husband to be a good one. This offered an insight into events which was perhaps more interesting. Overalll, I enjoyed this novel greatly & was sad to finallly finish it, although on the other hand, I couldn't put it down. I am very much looking forward to the author's next novel.
