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miss_honey_91's review
Too hard to follow - couldn't tell which case I was reading about when listening to the audiobook.
ebrichardson55's review
adventurous
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
2.5
2.5 - I am not sure this book achieves what it sets out to be. I became very confused as to the purpose of this book; Investigation of Jacob Gray? Of Amy Bechtel? True crime? A partial Listing of the hundreds of people who go missing in National Parks? A love poem to blood hounds? What he does do is tell you about many missing persons cases and in the case of Jacob Gray outlines the frustrating bureaucracy that can interfere with the searches. But I was a little disoriented by his structure or lack thereof - I guess I was expecting something more linear. I was fairly shocked that he gave so much space to portals, alien abduction and Sasquatch theories. There is a chapter devoted to Blood Hounds that has nothing to do with Jacob Gray. I guess the main thing I will take away is that many people go missing and are never found - not sure I needed to read a book about that.
ohwhatagloomyshow's review against another edition
Realized I frankly wasn’t that interested in the subject.
ctlucas16's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
2.0
I ended up skimming to the end of this book. I found the writing style very clunky and the whole book needed editing. Hopping back and forth between different missing person stories made it hard to track who was who. There was one line that was the straw that broke the camel's back. The author said that Jacob Gray's mother was still able to laugh and smile and that even if the national park was where Jacob's life ended, she was proud he had chosen such a beautiful spot. I was rolling my eyes at that.
The tie in to the Sasquatch believers was annoying at best and sprinkled haphazardly throughout the book. I was expecting a more thoroughly researched book and then to find out that the book was not well received by Jacob Gray's circle just confirmed my doubts about the book.
The tie in to the Sasquatch believers was annoying at best and sprinkled haphazardly throughout the book. I was expecting a more thoroughly researched book and then to find out that the book was not well received by Jacob Gray's circle just confirmed my doubts about the book.