The Missing One by, Lucy Atkins
Release date February 16th 2014
This has a gothic atmosphere to it that I liked very much
and it kept me on the edge of my seat most of the time and was a hard book to
put down.
Kal( Kali) is in a
bad place her mother just died and she found some texts on her husband’s phone
that don’t look good, and while cleaning out her mother’s things she finds some
postcards from a woman she has never heard of and in her mental state she
decides to go half way around the world to talk to this woman to find out more
about the mother she was never close to. The woman she finds is Susannah who is
at best an unreliable narrator at worst well…
A lot of this book is at a frenetic pace because it moves
along with Kali’s mind which is going in 20 different directions and it’s
palpable while reading this book, I felt a sense of the frantic as I read and also
dread because you just felt there was more to things and Kali was too wound up
to see straight, but the problem is she brought her child along for the ride. The
recent death of her mother has Kali in a tailspin she can’t think straight but
she goes on this mission to find out more about her mother’s youth what was she
like in college and is the reason they didn’t get along because her mother gave
up her PhD study to have her? But there
is the old adage “be careful what you wish for” because what she finds out may
not be what she wanted to know.
I don’t want to give too much away because I don’t want to
ruin anyone’s enjoyment of this story. So I will close this by saying I really
enjoyed this book; I loved the gothic thriller feel to it and as I said I had a
hard time putting it down because I needed to know what was going to happen
next. My only little qualm was the ending chapter but it didn’t detract from my
enjoyment of this book. So if you like gothic atmosphere, thrillers, and family
secrets give this one a try.
4 Stars
I received this book from Netgalley and the publisher
(Quercus) for a fair and honest review
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