Reviews

Missing on Main Street by Sarah Hualde

mongoose_1's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

katiya's review

3.0

A young girl goes missing yet only one of the people in her life is prompted to take action. When Ivy disappears, Lydia fears the worst. Can Lydia and her friends locate the teen before something terrible happens?

When I started reading this book, I didn't realise it was set at Christmas. Oh well, that'll teach me to read the blurbs more closely. The story began on a strong note with an event that pulled me in but then slowed as the main characters were introduced - so many that initially, they were hard to keep straight. After a few chapters, the pacing picked up and my interest was piqued again.

aspygirlsmom_1995's review

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

5.0

chantie's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

5.0

I have read Sarah Hualde's series about Penny and love it,  so I thought I would try this series. I loved it too.  Missing on Main Street has more religion in it than the Penny series,  but it is so well written that it flows with the plot.  The story follows 3 different families and their friendship and how Ivy intersects with their lives. They are all so strong,  individually and together. I like how they all faced challenges and they all preserved. I'll be starting the second one right away.  

pages_and_procrastination's review

This is perhaps the most disappointing read I've had this year. And it's even more so since I was looking forward to reading this. There are quite a few things that bothered me. Structurally, the timeline was out of sync. There are things that would happen and then the characters went on as if they hadn't or respond to something that was resolved in a previous chapter. It's almost as if the author edited/revised one chapter but didn't make the necessary changed in the following chapters. Also, it wasn't too realistic. Even for amateur investigators. Most of the time they were ignoring small things -that individually may not have mattered but put them together painted the entire picture. And sometimes that works because eventually the investigator(s) put the small clues together. Not in this case- someone tells the investigator what's happened and that cheapened the reading experience even more. I didn't like the characters -at all. They were judge-y and self absorbed -which is ironic since this is a christian mystery. There is something that I pegged at the beginning of the story but it doesn't even dawn on the character as a possibility until the end of the book. Which is fine-except it's what she does for a living. This is a case of where the book was released out into the world before it was ready. There is potential but this reads as a rough draft to what could be a much better novel. I will not be continuing on with the series, and I kind of would like a refund. :(