4.5* Really surprised by how good this was! I loved the writing, the timeline jumps, the mystery was super unique (and dark!!) the forensic pathologist MC was also a fascinating POV to read from, honestly this was just all around a great thriller. Can’t wait to read more from this author. 👏🏼👏🏼

WOW just WOW.... At first my impressions of this book was a solid 4 stars because it was just good... but the more I thought about it and let the story marinate, the more I realized I couldn't stop thinking about it which changed it to a solid 5 stars. You are constantly questioning who kidnapped the girls as you go back and forth from Nicole, Megan, and Livia's perspectives. There are so many surprises between the chapters that leave you scrambling to piece everything together until you reached...

One got away. What happened to the other?Livia Cutty, a fellow in forensic examination, can’t help feeling like one day she will be performing an autopsy on someone just like her sister, Nicole, who went missing 14 months prior. Nicole and her high school classmate, Megan McDonald, both disappeared one night at a beach party, launching a massive search. Two weeks later, Megan escaped…but had no idea what happened to Nicole.In the present day, Megan is a bit of a celebrity, after writing and rele...

Megan McDonald and Nicole Cutty both disappear from a beach party in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods.Nicole counted the days and thought she was missing for twelve or thirteen days. Stuck in a cellar where her captor stowed her. When she escaped a driver found her and said "Good God, the whole state has been looking for you. Where's your friend" he asked. Megan looked at him and asked "Who". " Nicole Cutty ...

Traveling Sisters Review by Norma, Brenda, Kaceey and Lindsay!Two girls taken, one returns.  THE GIRL WHO WAS TAKEN by CHARLIE DONLEA is an extremely gripping, haunting, and perfectly paced suspenseful psychological thriller that had us all totally engaged, entertained, and interested throughout this whole book.  Having Lindsay right away racing through the pages unable to put it down with Norma right behind her. Although, the pace was a little slow in the beginning for Norma and Kaceey it didn’...

5 stars! This was one gripping and addictive crazy ride!

I was glued to the pages of this story and could not put this book down! This was such a fantastic read!

I HIGHLY recommend this book if you are in the mood for a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller! It is going on my Favourites list!

Forensics don't lie even though people do.And lightning seems to strike quite often in the same locale.Charlie Donlea is back with another thriller here. The characters within find themselves oddly connected by the eerie strand of a missing loved one. No clues. Just gone.But one unfortunate victim, Megan McDonald, has slipped from the clutches of her captor and run head-long onto a lonely highway. She's been rescued, but her inner being is still tangled up in the horrendous nightmare of those da...

*3.5-ish stars*This book took a while to warm up, and although some of it wasn't deeply compelling, it was interesting enough to hold my attention. Then, finally, just when everything begins to boil—feces hitting the fan, bodies literally crawling out of the creepy-ass woodwork—it ends. And I shake my e-copy because surely there’s another page. But *Swipe* *Swipe*… Nothing. Fine, so there are supposed to be more books in the works, I get it, and I assume this ending did what it set out to do. I’...

4.5 starsHaving enjoyed Mr. Donlea’s first novel, Summit Lake, I was thrilled to get the opportunity to read an advanced copy of his second book, The Girl Who Was Taken. Readers who are sick of books with “Girl” in the title should take heed NOT to dismiss this novel because of its title. It’s a winner.The story takes place in one of my favorite states, North Carolina. The protagonist is Livia Cutty, a fellow in pathology, studying to be a medical examiner. Great name for someone who does autops...

Some fellow reviewers and I first stumbled across Charlie Donlea at the beginning of 2016; we all scrambled for a NetGalley copy of his debut novel Summit Lake after reading several rave reviews on Goodreads. When you've been writing reviews for awhile, you start to come across a good number of first time authors and their writing can be a bit rough; not so here. We all raved and cheered on Summit Lake and kept his name logged in our thoughts in hopes of a new book being published in 2017, and h...