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A review by sabireads84
The Lost Boy by Jane Renshaw
4.0
Thank you NetGalley, Inkubator Books and Jane Renshaw for letting me read “The Lost Boy” in exchange for an honest review.
The Cover
The cover drew me in right away. It’s dark, looming and moody with a touch of colour, a boy looking over a shore. It looks like a thunderstorm is nearing.
It was a bit confusing at first. I searched for the book on Goodreads. I thought I found it, but soon realised it was not. Same title, almost similar cover, but different author, published in 2020. Very similar boy in the yellow clothes.
The Plot
The Clarke family is invited by Anna, to spent a week on a remote island in Scotland. For free, that is not suspicious at all, is it? Pack up your wife and two kids and go to see a virtual stranger in the middle of bloody nowhere? Heh. Now that makes a great story. Anna is supposed to live on the island with her husband and son, but Penny and Rod Clarke never get to see them. On top, Anna is soon behaving suspiciously and Penny grows uneasy. Why? The reader soon will get to know on the first pages, that Anna plans to kill one of their two young boys. Why did she lure the family to the island? Will the family be able to escape the island and at what cost?
The narrating switches between Penny and Anna, written in third persons POV.
My opinion
It becomes clear very soon, that the boys are spoiled rotten. It’s hard to like them. I’ve gotten grey hairs from reading alone.
The Cover
The cover drew me in right away. It’s dark, looming and moody with a touch of colour, a boy looking over a shore. It looks like a thunderstorm is nearing.
It was a bit confusing at first. I searched for the book on Goodreads. I thought I found it, but soon realised it was not. Same title, almost similar cover, but different author, published in 2020. Very similar boy in the yellow clothes.
The Plot
The Clarke family is invited by Anna, to spent a week on a remote island in Scotland. For free, that is not suspicious at all, is it? Pack up your wife and two kids and go to see a virtual stranger in the middle of bloody nowhere? Heh. Now that makes a great story. Anna is supposed to live on the island with her husband and son, but Penny and Rod Clarke never get to see them. On top, Anna is soon behaving suspiciously and Penny grows uneasy. Why? The reader soon will get to know on the first pages, that Anna plans to kill one of their two young boys. Why did she lure the family to the island? Will the family be able to escape the island and at what cost?
The narrating switches between Penny and Anna, written in third persons POV.
My opinion
It becomes clear very soon, that the boys are spoiled rotten. It’s hard to like them. I’ve gotten grey hairs from reading alone.