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The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene
4.0
Read Completed 11/26/24 | 4 stars
This was a hard one to rate! I enjoyed the book all the way through, and the ending was positively thrilling for me, but I didn't love the reasoning behind everything. I wasn't even going to pick up this book, but I saw several social media posts about how it was a good audiobook and I'm a sucker for anything podcast-related for thrillers (even though I don't even listen to podcasts). Because of everyone raving, I was hoping for a *little* more audiobook production, but there are different narrators and podcast snippets for the reader to enjoy!
The two main POVs worked well here. We get the main POV of Lindsey who is now 30 years old, 24 years after the disappearance of her older sister Jessica. Jessica was much older than Lindsey and was in college when she disappeared at Lindsey's 6th birthday party. After news pops up about bodies in a nearby lake, Lindsey begins to look into her sister's disappearance on her own, and a podcast looking into it as well spurs her to dive deeper.
We also get Jessica's POV in the past, back when she was in college and before she disappeared. We see her life slowly falling apart, things that Lindsey never knew about because she was too young, and how all of these things created too many threads to follow upon her disappearance.
I really enjoyed the writing style and just really clicked with the book! This was definitely a fun read, full of mystery, thrills, and kept me on the edge of my seat. The finale in this book was so exciting! I could not stop reading, my jaw dropped, and I was seriously hooked. It was something I haven't felt in a thriller in a long time!
My only complaint was that I really, really didn't like the reasoning for everything that happened. I can't go into detail because it's an enormous spoiler, but if that ONE thing was changed, this would have been a five star book. I thought the reasons for the murders didn't quite make sense and I either needed some more detail, or less of something else. Something about it didn't really feel balanced and logical. I wanted this to be a five star book SO BADLY, but it was a fun read and I'm so happy the ending surprised me! It will definitely be a make-or-break moment for many readers though, I think.
READ THIS IF YOU LIKED...
- THE CHEERLEADERS by Kara Thomas
This was a hard one to rate! I enjoyed the book all the way through, and the ending was positively thrilling for me, but I didn't love the reasoning behind everything. I wasn't even going to pick up this book, but I saw several social media posts about how it was a good audiobook and I'm a sucker for anything podcast-related for thrillers (even though I don't even listen to podcasts). Because of everyone raving, I was hoping for a *little* more audiobook production, but there are different narrators and podcast snippets for the reader to enjoy!
The two main POVs worked well here. We get the main POV of Lindsey who is now 30 years old, 24 years after the disappearance of her older sister Jessica. Jessica was much older than Lindsey and was in college when she disappeared at Lindsey's 6th birthday party. After news pops up about bodies in a nearby lake, Lindsey begins to look into her sister's disappearance on her own, and a podcast looking into it as well spurs her to dive deeper.
We also get Jessica's POV in the past, back when she was in college and before she disappeared. We see her life slowly falling apart, things that Lindsey never knew about because she was too young, and how all of these things created too many threads to follow upon her disappearance.
I really enjoyed the writing style and just really clicked with the book! This was definitely a fun read, full of mystery, thrills, and kept me on the edge of my seat. The finale in this book was so exciting! I could not stop reading, my jaw dropped, and I was seriously hooked. It was something I haven't felt in a thriller in a long time!
My only complaint was that I really, really didn't like the reasoning for everything that happened. I can't go into detail because it's an enormous spoiler, but if that ONE thing was changed, this would have been a five star book. I thought the reasons for the murders didn't quite make sense and I either needed some more detail, or less of something else. Something about it didn't really feel balanced and logical. I wanted this to be a five star book SO BADLY, but it was a fun read and I'm so happy the ending surprised me! It will definitely be a make-or-break moment for many readers though, I think.
READ THIS IF YOU LIKED...
- THE CHEERLEADERS by Kara Thomas