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The Goldfish Boy
by Lisa Thompson
Rating: 3.0/5.0
Matthew a 12 years old boy suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He does not leave his room. He spends his day looking at other people and what they do from his room's window. One day a toddler next door goes missing. Matthew then acts like the detective who sees every person as the main suspect!
The book is nicely written but I feel the mystery was not executed the way I expected it to be reading the synopsis. A lot of times I felt the author was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window movie. There are many similarities there except that here we have a kidnap while in the movie it is a murder. And the other thing is that the protagonist in the book is not an adult like the film.
This was not a boring book by any means but I think I had a little higher expectations getting into it, be it from the synopsis or the high ratings. Give it a try, you might like it.
Matthew a 12 years old boy suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He does not leave his room. He spends his day looking at other people and what they do from his room's window. One day a toddler next door goes missing. Matthew then acts like the detective who sees every person as the main suspect!
The book is nicely written but I feel the mystery was not executed the way I expected it to be reading the synopsis. A lot of times I felt the author was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window movie. There are many similarities there except that here we have a kidnap while in the movie it is a murder. And the other thing is that the protagonist in the book is not an adult like the film.
This was not a boring book by any means but I think I had a little higher expectations getting into it, be it from the synopsis or the high ratings. Give it a try, you might like it.