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Last Seen Leaving
by Caleb Roehrig
Hmmm, this was longer than it needed to be. I enjoyed the writing, though it did veer towards being over-descriptive a few times. The characters were believable and I found myself caring for them / disliking them as required. The plot though...
* Why didn't they use sniffer dogs in the first search of January's family's land? Or at least the day after the first search? To leave it till after her "killer" was caught a week or whatever later was was ridiculous.
* The Police haven't searched January's room? SERIOUSLY? Her personal stuff is still there for her step brother to root through?
* Why wouldn't the police take the comments about Cedric seriously? I would imagine he was exactly the sort of person who they would be looking for, AND he found the blood-stained clothes so I imagine they would be interested in him. I knew the minute we met him it was him.
* Why would Reiko (I am not sure how it is spelt because I listened to the audio version) confront Cedric alone? Surely ANYONE would be more sensible than that?
* Flynn sometimes seems quite intelligent, and sometimes like the dumbest human on earth. He didn't notice a massive picture of his girlfriend on the wall straight away? He didn't think to look FIRST in the nightstand? But then magically when he sees an empty blood donor bag he Sherlock Holmes his way speedily enough to do an entire info dump, providing us with a rushed clumsy twist.
* Don't get me started on that twist. It was childish. She's still alive with her happy ending in California after all! Why not have a magic prince kiss her back to life like in a Disney movie and get it over with?
* When January text's Flynn "Goodbye" he doesn't try to call or text her back at ALL? I don't care how shocked he is or how he feels she has the right to her secret, that's just a shitty human being. He could at least have texted to say, "Can I send you some cash?" Because being a homeless pregnant fifteen year old in LA is probably not that easy.
* Oh and I would have told her mother her daughter was still alive. Tammy had her problems, but she'd go back to living in a dive with her daughter in a shot, and that girl really needs a mother right now. Best case scenario I can see is January getting an illegal job working for pittance enough to feed herself and having to give birth in a trailer because she can't afford to go to hospital. And Tammy drinking herself to death.
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.. was ridiculous. So many holes. These were my main problems with it:* Why didn't they use sniffer dogs in the first search of January's family's land? Or at least the day after the first search? To leave it till after her "killer" was caught a week or whatever later was was ridiculous.
* The Police haven't searched January's room? SERIOUSLY? Her personal stuff is still there for her step brother to root through?
* Why wouldn't the police take the comments about Cedric seriously? I would imagine he was exactly the sort of person who they would be looking for, AND he found the blood-stained clothes so I imagine they would be interested in him. I knew the minute we met him it was him.
* Why would Reiko (I am not sure how it is spelt because I listened to the audio version) confront Cedric alone? Surely ANYONE would be more sensible than that?
* Flynn sometimes seems quite intelligent, and sometimes like the dumbest human on earth. He didn't notice a massive picture of his girlfriend on the wall straight away? He didn't think to look FIRST in the nightstand? But then magically when he sees an empty blood donor bag he Sherlock Holmes his way speedily enough to do an entire info dump, providing us with a rushed clumsy twist.
* Don't get me started on that twist. It was childish. She's still alive with her happy ending in California after all! Why not have a magic prince kiss her back to life like in a Disney movie and get it over with?
* When January text's Flynn "Goodbye" he doesn't try to call or text her back at ALL? I don't care how shocked he is or how he feels she has the right to her secret, that's just a shitty human being. He could at least have texted to say, "Can I send you some cash?" Because being a homeless pregnant fifteen year old in LA is probably not that easy.
* Oh and I would have told her mother her daughter was still alive. Tammy had her problems, but she'd go back to living in a dive with her daughter in a shot, and that girl really needs a mother right now. Best case scenario I can see is January getting an illegal job working for pittance enough to feed herself and having to give birth in a trailer because she can't afford to go to hospital. And Tammy drinking herself to death.