A review by hannahreadslotsofbooks
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn

3.0

What Was Lost started out promising with 10 year old Kate starting her own investigation company with her stuffed monkey. She talks about what happens in the mall that she “investigates” and she’s a fun character to follow around. Then about halfway through the reader finds out that she has disappeared and it’s been 20 years since she was last seen. The story is then told through the perspectives of Lisa and Kurt two current employees at the mall that are somewhat connected and haunted by Kate’s disappearance. That section was very uninteresting. I’ll be honest, I feel asleep twice while listening to this. I have no idea what I missed, but it also didn’t really impact the story. Lisa and Kurt were very uninteresting characters and that section seemed to drag on. If that section didn’t exist, I think it would have been better, but I don’t know what could have been put in place of that.