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A review by ingera
The Lost Child by Patricia Gibney
1.0
1.5 rounded down.
Ok, I gave it a good go, but I think this is my last book in this series for a while. This was a convoluted mess, and I totally got lost with all the siblings and half-siblings and disappeared siblings and mothers and fathers and random drug dealers and god knows who. As with the previous books, it’s just too many pointless murders (I’m still mad about the killing of Jason in the first book), it’s like the author get paid for every murder in the book and just throw the bodies in. It isn’t enough to kill off a grandmother and her daughter, no, she had to kill the granddaughter as well, then for good measure kill the granddaughters father, and if you thought that was enough, the grandmothers brother was killed as well. And it wasn’t enough to kill just the journalist over his files, of course his wife had to be killed, and once again traumatised children are left without parents. Lottie is still a rather shitty parent herself, and a shitty inspector who’s constantly screaming at and undermining her detectives. As usual she ignores important phone calls or messages, and when she forgets to return them of course something bad happens, and once again her family are dragged in to the drama and she ends up half dead.
Maybe sometimes it’s best not reading series back to back over such a short time (three books in three days), and as I already have bought the next book I can read it in a year or so with more fresh eyes. Because in spite of all my ramblings here, Gibney has something promising in her writing as well.
/end rant
Ok, I gave it a good go, but I think this is my last book in this series for a while. This was a convoluted mess, and I totally got lost with all the siblings and half-siblings and disappeared siblings and mothers and fathers and random drug dealers and god knows who. As with the previous books, it’s just too many pointless murders (I’m still mad about the killing of Jason in the first book), it’s like the author get paid for every murder in the book and just throw the bodies in. It isn’t enough to kill off a grandmother and her daughter, no, she had to kill the granddaughter as well, then for good measure kill the granddaughters father, and if you thought that was enough, the grandmothers brother was killed as well. And it wasn’t enough to kill just the journalist over his files, of course his wife had to be killed, and once again traumatised children are left without parents. Lottie is still a rather shitty parent herself, and a shitty inspector who’s constantly screaming at and undermining her detectives. As usual she ignores important phone calls or messages, and when she forgets to return them of course something bad happens, and once again her family are dragged in to the drama and she ends up half dead.
Maybe sometimes it’s best not reading series back to back over such a short time (three books in three days), and as I already have bought the next book I can read it in a year or so with more fresh eyes. Because in spite of all my ramblings here, Gibney has something promising in her writing as well.
/end rant