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A review by starklinqs
Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister
2.75
I was so excited to read this after Wrong Place, Wrong Time, but it was unfortunately a bit of a letdown. The POV changing was okay, but I feel like labeling sections by days missing only to kind of pull the rug out from under the reader to say that it was different periods in time just didn’t really vibe with me? I still ended up suspecting it, but it added an extra layer of confusion to me. It’s something that I feel would work better on an onscreen medium than it does in a book, but maybe that’s just me.
The characters also felt underdeveloped. I know I was supposed to care about them, and the parental relationships with their children, but I couldn’t find myself caring about a single one. The most emotion I felt was about Julia and how she seemed to be fucking up at nearly every turn. For a woman who was supposed to be this machine at her work, she just seemed really stupid, straight from the events of the prologue. The ending is wrapped up, but I’m not sure how we’re meant to even conclude the whodunnit from what the book actually tells us, again, in part because of how underdeveloped the characters are. I’ll still check out her other books, but this book was such a disappointment to me.
The characters also felt underdeveloped. I know I was supposed to care about them, and the parental relationships with their children, but I couldn’t find myself caring about a single one. The most emotion I felt was about Julia and how she seemed to be fucking up at nearly every turn. For a woman who was supposed to be this machine at her work, she just seemed really stupid, straight from the events of the prologue. The ending is wrapped up, but I’m not sure how we’re meant to even conclude the whodunnit from what the book actually tells us, again, in part because of how underdeveloped the characters are. I’ll still check out her other books, but this book was such a disappointment to me.