My MIL was a voracious* reader. This has nothing to do with anything about this book I’ve brought to you today, except that it was one of the last gifts Hubby and I gave her before she passed. Trying to find a book she hadn’t read was always a challenge, and one we often accepted.
*This word is often connected to the word reader and it wasn’t until observing my MIL again and again with a book in her hand that I really understood this adjective paired with reader.
I’m not a big fan of thrillers. This doesn’t mean I don’t read and enjoy them. But to be a true fan of thrillers, to me, means you are voraciously seeking after that genre, and always that genre in particular. I pretty much read the popular thrillers, ones recommended to me, or ones I find myself drawn to for one obscure reason or another.
So, All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda was on my shelf for a very long time before I finally decided to give it a go.
The thing I love about thrillers of this sort, and at the same time hate, is that I end up reading them within a matter of days*, and have to force myself not to finish within a matter of hours.
*Voraciously, perhaps?
What I loved about this one, is that it wasn’t just filled with the ordinary thriller flash, the edge of your seat grip that makes you keep turning the page.
It was all that, but there was also a bit of heart to it. A story that could’ve been anyone’s story of broken family and a discarded past.
And, most intriguing and jarring at first, is that the story is told backward.
Here are my favorite quotes:
“It was a feeling that settled in your ribs and slowly gnawed at you from the inside—the irrational fear that people were slipping away right before your eyes.”
“People were like Russian nesting dolls—versions stacks inside the latest edition. But they all still lived inside, unchanged, just out of sight.”
“It’s all tangled together—the truth, the fiction—and sometimes it’s hard to pick apart. Sometimes it’s hard to remember which parts truly exist.”
“How many people out there are responsible for some tragedy and don’t even know it?”
Rating: 4/5
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