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A review by paulabrandon
Find Me by J.S. Monroe
3.0
Gone Girl knock-off in which a young man, Jar, still believes he sees his girlfriend, Rosa, everywhere he goes. The thing is, she died five years previously, due to suicide. What he sees are just "bereavement hallucinations". However, what if they're not hallucinations at all? Jar starts to question everything when Rosa's aunt gives him Rosa's diary, which she has just found. It throws up all sorts of questions about her "death".
It's still an involving read, both suspenseful and disturbing. Even if the early diary entries were mostly false, there was still too many of them. The beginning placing was a bit slow, taking a while for me to get into the book. However, once it got going, it was admittedly hard to put down. Just don't expect anything terribly fresh or outside the box.
Spoiler
The big problem in today's post-Gone Girl popular fiction landscape is that we know diary entries can be faked. That particular twist is what Gone Girl turned on, and a feeling of deja vu hung over me all throughout the first half of this book. I just knew that the diary entries we were reading from Rosa's perspective weren't necessarily an accurate representation of what had happened. However, Gone Girl then went off in other surprising, unexpected directions. This book did not. When the plot "twist" is revealed at the mid-way point, there aren't any other real surprises as it quickly becomes apparent what has really happened to Rosa.It's still an involving read, both suspenseful and disturbing. Even if the early diary entries were mostly false, there was still too many of them. The beginning placing was a bit slow, taking a while for me to get into the book. However, once it got going, it was admittedly hard to put down. Just don't expect anything terribly fresh or outside the box.