Name: Found, Near Water
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780473279936

Katherine Hayton

Rena Sutherland wakes from a coma to discover her daughter's been missing for days. No one's noticed, no one's complained, no one's searching. The victim support officer assigned to her case, Christine Emmett puts aside her own problems as she tries to guide Rena through the maelstrom of her daughter's disappearance. A task made harder by an ex-husband desperate for control; a paedophile on early-release in the community; and a psychic who knows more than seems possible. And flowing beneath everything is a crime - perpetrated across generations - pulling them into its wake.

Found, Near Water

Sabetha Danes

Overall, this was a rather twisted version of six degrees of separation theory but fell flat in a few places. The book focuses more on the mental state of the moms of the missing kids, and not on the horrors of the child abductions, and culprit. So it wasn't thriller paced, more hollow and going through the mindless nuances of life paced. There was very little time spent on culprit, or why the police never caught wind of his activities prior to the events in this book. Which was disappointing.

There is a present day plot line, then chapters featuring the backstory of one of the many main characters sprinkled throughout the book. This added to the lack of "thriller" within the book, because as soon as anything was getting heated you were thrown into someone's backstory. 

While I was surprised at how everything linked together, there wasn't enough time spend on it all, and the end chapters were more a synopsis of how everyone went on living. So it ending rather bland for the story that was there. In the final twist, I saw it coming but the delivery and explanation was lackluster. Over all there were just a lot of things that were told in a narrator tone, instead of shown through the actions of the cast. I would have rather the final chapter been in the eyes of one of the ladies involved then the narrator telling us about the findings. 

Aside from all of that, the interworking of parents trying to survive day to day life years after their children were abducted was fascinating. I am curious if the next book will pick up with any of these characters.

You'll love this book if you aren't looking for a fast paced thriller, or gore and on screen violence.

Note: Off Screen Abuse, Child Abduction, Alcoholism

Found, Near Water

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