A review by sausome
The Girl With No Past by Kathryn Croft

3.0

This was a relatively quick, engrossing read. It's set up in the style of so many recent mysteries wanting to feel the success of Gone Girl, giving you the present existence of someone, flashing back to when something happened. You don't find out the something until the end, when the mysteries and tense mood are heightened and then something else happens. So aside from being pretty formulaic, it reached a few new levels of disturbing, and I'm not really sure whether or not this was necessary? It may have added another layer, making it more than a possible YA-slotted book, and added some heightened levels of crazy/psychotic as well. There's almost a screen-shot of Teaching Mrs. Tingle as well, if that makes sense. I haven't read her other novels, but the descriptions sound like they could be for this book. From Behind Closed Doors: "Meeting ______ is the beginning of an unspeakable nightmare for ______ and her world slowly unravels. It is only through the re-telling of her story that we piece together what has led her to become a mere shadow of the woman she once was." I mean, this book is this description. That being said, it doesn't really matter so long as the book takes you on the thriller/mystery ride you want, right?