17k reviews for:

Local Woman Missing

Mary Kubica

3.98 AVERAGE

asetian's review

3.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

cfredz's review

3.5

mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

anniebeck's review

4.75

dark mysterious tense

gemmamorris's review

4.0

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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It was fine! Pretty average thriller, good story although I guessed part of the twist pretty early on. There was a part where the explanation made no sense which was annoying. But overall it was engaging and a fun read!

graciesbookcase's review against another edition

4.5

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mrslink1221's review

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

akcvtt's review

3.75

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

colleenroyer's review against another edition

4.0

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This book was full of twists, turns and red herrings. While I think some things, some significant things, seemed to be far-fetched and wouldn’t happen in the real world, I am one who can put those things aside and enjoy the book for what it is- a fictional story. An easy and quick book, and worth the read if you’re in to thrillers.

vbarrett17's review

2.75

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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2.75 STARS

“Local Woman Missing” is not a bad book, but the execution was not great either…

For over half of the book, I was sitting at 2.5 stars because I did not like the writing style. It is written more tell than show. The sentences are very simple which made it very boring and lack depth. I could not connect with any of the characters, and the plot was relatively slow till the last 50+ pages. 

The only reason I raised it to 2.75 stars is because of the reveals and twists at the end made it more exciting. However, I can’t let plot twists cover all the plot holes…

To be honest, most of the crimes committed resulted in poor choices by the victims:
🚨 Bad marriages with terrible communication 
🚨 Not reading into the signs of bad friends
🚨 Lack of awareness in a survival situation 
🚨 People not knowing how to do their jobs and blind trust in authority 

The only true victims I genuinely felt bad for was

Carly Byrd

, Delilah, and Josh 🫣

All in all, it wasn’t a bad story, and the ending made it more worth it, but it could have been better.

maeganv's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes