DNF - The writing style is not for me. The sentence structure is so simple, yet the content is overly dramatic and irrelevantly descriptive.Here is the exact scene when I realized this book is not for me: The doorbell rings. It takes the character two whole pages (ten paragraphs) to walk over and open the door. In the meantime, we are treated to musings on the weather, how the apocalypse is coming because it's raining so much, how they should build an ark, how she went to church to confess just ...

i dont think ive read a mystery/thriller where it feels like the story is working backwards.im not sure how to describe it other than the reader is given the entire picture, a large mural of everything that has happened. but, as the story progresses, the visual gets smaller, the general collage becoming individual screenshots, until the focus is finally pinpointed on the one quick, fleeting moment that created the picture in the first place.its really interesting the way the information is revea...

I knew I Shouldn’t Have Read This! Local Woman Missing is about two missing women who went missing from an affluent neighborhood 11 years ago. In the present, a teenage girl who has escaped from captivity has a startling connection to the missing women.Narrated by Kate, Meredith, and Leo, I found all characters boring. Leo was more interesting than the other two, but I never understood the purpose of having him serve as a narrator. If narrated by other characters, this could have been more inte...

i was wondering why kate had a pov at all and of course it's so her wife can end up being the psychopath of the story. i get what the author was trying to do but i don't think its an effective twist just because you don't expect a woman to do it. i think its the cheapest kind of twist, not to mention that this was queer representation and being smacked with the idea that even lesbians can be evil just cheapens it further. there was some good commentary about how doctors can take advantage of wom...

Ik I am late, lots of good things have already been said about this book. I on other hand am a bit disappointed.Why?1. Motivation is always the key factor in any murder mystery book the question of why? have always been fasinating for me because this gives an insight in human nature. 2. Shocking twists that weren't that shocking. Honeslty the whole bea and Meredith accidently killing Shelly and then hiding her body didn't worked out for me . The whole mystery around Delihah wasn't that interest...

Once again, here I am, an outlier. Most of my friends here enjoyed it, but I did not.First the positives: I loved the beginning. Sorry, that's it, there's only one positive that I can come up with.Now the negatives:If I listed all the implausible actions, reactions, events, scenarios, and conclusions I would re-write the entire book. I can’t give details as they would be spoilers.BUT, the physician who performs an autopsy on a victim is a complete moron to miss obvious signs that it didn't happe...

Be sure to visit Bantering Books to read all my latest reviews.I’m baffled. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Because I shouldn’t have liked Mary Kubica’s latest thriller, Local Woman Missing. But I did.Shelby Tebow vanishes late one night while out for a jog. Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, disappear shortly thereafter, just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen. Fast forward 11 years, and Delilah shockingly returns, sparking renewed questions as to the true natur...

It’s time for some Mary Kubica math!100 = Target score. Also, if this author writes a thriller there’s a 100% chance I’ll want to read it.+20 = Prologue. A woman knows her husband is cheating on her, but that’s a-okay because she’s cheating on him too. She goes out for “a run” to meet her current side piece, and the chapter ends abruptly as something comes at her. What could it be?! Let's move on to...+30 = Part One. A young girl is held captive and tries to escape. I could not turn these pages ...

Wow, what a ride! My heart was pounding – thump, thump, thump! I think I fell in love with the first 200 pages of this book. I was even inspired to write a song about it (a thriller song seems more fitting!) because this book had me on edge, constantly guessing the characters’ connections, and scrambling to piece together the puzzle. It made me jumpy, restless, and incredibly agitated. I was ready to declare it one of my all-time favorite reads.But then, as I reached the last 60 pages, something...

Local Woman Missing by Mary KubicaEleven years ago, two women and a six year old girl went missing. Now the girl is back, having escaped her captors. But things don't feel right to her younger brother, Leo. His life has always revolved around his sister, when she was with them and after she went missing. She's been a ghost in his family of two, ever since his mother and sister have been gone. His father is always thinking about her, forgetting that he has a son right there with him, wanting his ...