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judy_writes 's review for:
The Girl Who Survived
by Lisa Jackson
This was a great twisty mystery thriller - just when I thought I’d figured out whodunit, Lisa Jackson gave me something else to think about as I followed this story of a woman traumatized from the grisly murder of her family when she was 7 - at Christmas. Jackson does a great job of Fl developing all the characters, even those who don’t have a long feature in the book. The plot and people came alive for me.
The reason I gave this 3 stars is not for lack of story quality - it’s the copy quality. There was one instance when one character was describing the accident (I don’t say more so no spoilers!) and the other character responds with “Three?” I did not understand what that meant and then I realized, info in the paragraph after that should have been included in the dialogue above the “three?” There were other punctuation errors (on one of the last pages, the author forgot to close a quote, and repeated the quote in the next paragraph…seems like quality control/editing issue.
In general, I had no idea what day it was. I thought everyday was Christmas or Christmas Eve and then someone referred to it as the coming weekend and … I was so lost on when in the timeline I was for this story.
I also found somethings questionable. Like the protest. Again don’t want to give too much away but this is connected to my misunderstanding of timing…how did all those people so quickly get there with signs and everything? I could have sworn one of the characters identified that day as Christmas, that they parked in a church lot and it was empty…I just find it hard to stay in the story when I see inconsistencies like this that pull me out.
That all said - again, it was a great story!
The reason I gave this 3 stars is not for lack of story quality - it’s the copy quality. There was one instance when one character was describing the accident (I don’t say more so no spoilers!) and the other character responds with “Three?” I did not understand what that meant and then I realized, info in the paragraph after that should have been included in the dialogue above the “three?” There were other punctuation errors (on one of the last pages, the author forgot to close a quote, and repeated the quote in the next paragraph…seems like quality control/editing issue.
In general, I had no idea what day it was. I thought everyday was Christmas or Christmas Eve and then someone referred to it as the coming weekend and … I was so lost on when in the timeline I was for this story.
I also found somethings questionable. Like the protest. Again don’t want to give too much away but this is connected to my misunderstanding of timing…how did all those people so quickly get there with signs and everything? I could have sworn one of the characters identified that day as Christmas, that they parked in a church lot and it was empty…I just find it hard to stay in the story when I see inconsistencies like this that pull me out.
That all said - again, it was a great story!