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A review by ritaslilnook
Girl Lost by Kate Gable
2.0
I almost, almost, left this book unfinished, but I pushed through and am here now to talk about it. Firstly, let me start by saying that I didn’t read the previous book to this one so I’m not sure if my thoughts on this would be different but … I don’t think so.
Girl Lost is a book following the life of Detective Kaitlyn Carr, an LAPD agent who is assigned the case of a disappearing woman - Karen. Meanwhile, back home at Big Bear Lake, her thirteen-year-old sister, Violet, is missing. That’s the story, you don’t really get more than that.
I was very excited going into this story, it sounded like the perfect mix of the real-life of an agent vs. their working career. However, it ended up being too unrealistic and the writing was borderline average. Most descriptive scenes dragged on and on about details that you don’t really need to know to get the vibe the author is trying to pass onto you. I get that maybe her idea was to make you feel exactly what Kaitlyn was feeling and maybe in the author’s mind, it made sense to describe certain environments excessively to create a certain idea or image in our minds, but this story could have been told in half the number of pages it was.
All the scenes that promise to be climatic end up being monotonous and underdeveloped. Also, the ending wasn’t too surprising. Some of it, yes, but the person who committed the crime seemed quite obvious to me halfway through the book.
The premise of this book made me feel like I was going down a hill with a few bumps along the way.
One last thing and, please, bear in mind you might consider this a spoiler:
Happy reads, besties.
Girl Lost is a book following the life of Detective Kaitlyn Carr, an LAPD agent who is assigned the case of a disappearing woman - Karen. Meanwhile, back home at Big Bear Lake, her thirteen-year-old sister, Violet, is missing. That’s the story, you don’t really get more than that.
I was very excited going into this story, it sounded like the perfect mix of the real-life of an agent vs. their working career. However, it ended up being too unrealistic and the writing was borderline average. Most descriptive scenes dragged on and on about details that you don’t really need to know to get the vibe the author is trying to pass onto you. I get that maybe her idea was to make you feel exactly what Kaitlyn was feeling and maybe in the author’s mind, it made sense to describe certain environments excessively to create a certain idea or image in our minds, but this story could have been told in half the number of pages it was.
All the scenes that promise to be climatic end up being monotonous and underdeveloped. Also, the ending wasn’t too surprising. Some of it, yes, but the person who committed the crime seemed quite obvious to me halfway through the book.
The premise of this book made me feel like I was going down a hill with a few bumps along the way.
One last thing and, please, bear in mind you might consider this a spoiler:
Spoiler
For someone who loves her sister so much and tries to be more invested in finding her than working on her real case, it seems kind of strange to me how she’s so worried about whether she should pursue a relationship with one man or another. She’s going out eating dinner, talking about life (I would consider them dates) with men instead of doing her job, and focusing on both her sister and Karen. It takes the truthfulness of her feelings towards her sister and even her job seem quite fake and it makes her look unsympathetic towards both cases.Happy reads, besties.