Author: Laura Dave
Genre: Thriller
Rating: 2 out of 5
Pages: 319
Date Started: 21 July 2021
Date Finished: 27 July 2021
I read really good reviews about the book on both Goodreads and Amazon. After I read the synopsis, I felt it could be an interesting thriller/mystery.
Hannah Hall, who is clumsy and has a habit of losing everyday items, loses her husband Owen Michaels. Owen disappears one day leaving his 16 years old daughter Bailey with Hannah. Owen works for a software company 'The Shop' which is caught in fraud and money embezzlement. Before disappearing he leaves a note to Hannah 'Protect her' and leaves a huge amount of money in Bailey's school locker.
The book investigates how hard it was for Hannah and Bailey to come to terms that Owen was gone just like that leaving no trace and FBI and US Marshalls looking into the case of his disappearance. Hannah along with Bailey tries to search for Owen on their own, going to Austin, TX, which Bailey remembers visiting with her dad when she was a toddler. Taking that as a clue to his past, Hannah and Bailey try to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
My favorite character in the book is the author who kept going on and on, and succeeded in losing the grip!
The book had a good start for close to 150 pages where the story kept a good grip. The book lost its grip after that and the story went on and on without any plot in sight! It felt impossible to believe that Hannah would go to Austin just because Bailey mentioned visiting Austin when she was young, and Owen refused to visit Austin. Hannah keeps talking about her mother who abandoned her when she was young, which I felt was of no context, and that she hadn't recovered from the trauma. Page 246 sums up the entire story, and I could have saved the time reading the entire story before that!
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