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Забытая девушка by Karin Slaughter

19 reviews

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was fine. I literally remembered next to nothing about the first book, which I don’t think you really need to. The mystery of this was honestly whatever, I didn’t love the dual timeline. The characters were ok, like they were funny at times, but I’ll never remember any of this. My favorite part was the romance which was like two scenes lol. Idk if you liked the first you’ll probably like this, but this isn’t anything special. This author has better books in my opinion. 

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Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I loved this book by Karen Slaughter.  This one was a slow burn compared to her other one I just read, Pieces of You.  She seamlessly weaved the two different storylines (1980s & today).  I kept imagining this book as a episode of Cold Case and picturing how the characters looked in the 1980s versus now.  

I will be seeking out other Karen Slaughter books and adding them to my "to-read" shelf.

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dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Sure! Fine! A little silly, a little predictable, but it passed the time and kept me engaged. 

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Second book in the series, but you don’t need to read the first book to understand this one at all. The author left the ending where it could be possible for more to come (fingers crossed) but, this could also easily be an end to the Andrea Oliver story as well. I like the alternating of going from current day to the past. I was really trying to solve it it sooner than I did. But, the story kept me on my toes with enough “twist” to keep you guessing the solution. 

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dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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dark mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lots of copaganda (us security marshall-ganda?) in this one, but a smaller dose of the usual violent misogyny that is typically found in a Karen Slaughter novel. Which is not to say there was none but it was less prominent. This was a fairly slow book with the mystery being solved in like twenty pages at the end but I’m not mad about that and still found it interesting. 

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