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Close to Home by Lisa Jackson

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destinylittle5510's review

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challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Ok the story here was slow, I found myself getting bored with the story numerous times and I almost didn't finish. I feel like the author stereotypes teenagers by making jade the one who didn't care about anything. I mean who goes to a new school looking to make enemies. Then there's Sara that couldnt remember anything until her brother was there? There was a awful lot of talk about attraction to little girls by both pervs who were kidnapping but nothing ever came of it. I found the story line hard to follow because the POV kept switching so much and it wasn't consistent. The last and final thing I didn't like was the fact it was predictable. I found that I knew who the kidnappers were from the moment they were introduced so there wasn't much mystery to it.
There were things I liked, for instance, I liked how Gracie was more mature than her mom and sister, I also liked how the first girl kidnapped kept fighting right up until the end. 
All over very slow paced and a good read for younger audiences that dont have very logical way of thinking. The writing style was very simple.

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