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A review by obsidian_blue
Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
I honestly liked most of this book, but at one point you hit a plot point that just had me going really and it just never really regained it's mojo to me. I gave this four stars because as I said, the one plot point had me going but why a few thousand times and I just tossed my hands up. Also, I really needed a better epilogue than what we got. Sorry, I know that I am one of those annoying readers that likes things wrapped up and spelled out, but I do.
"Missing White Woman" follows Breanna. She's in New York City for the first time with her new boyfriend Ty. Breanna has a bad case of arrested dreams (not development, dreams) because of something from her youth that continues to cause her mother to harp all over her. She's feeling a bit stressed about Ty, and the fact he seems obsessive and stressed over work. Staying at their AirBnB has her stressed though, because a local woman, named Janelle Beckett (the missing white woman of the title) has gone missing and many in the AirBnB neighborhood knew her. Breanna feels like the neighbors are hostile (outside of one). And when she's about to leave, she goes downstairs and finds a dead body in the rented home and her boyfriend missing.
Things I loved, I absolutely loved us slowly finding out what happened to Breanna and why she's reluctant to trust anyone and why she does not want to give up on Ty. Also, it was great to see her establishing a....friendship I guess we can call it with someone she has not spoken to since college. Watching Breanna doing her own investigation into the neighbors, Ty, and even Janelle Beckett was great. Garrett tosses in a podcast host who was one of the first to sound the alarm on Janelle missing into the mix and plays with how social media makes every white woman out there to be a victim. I loved how this all came together.
The flow of the book really does work there until we get towards the 90 percent point of the book. I also thought the development of Breanna into someone that has to learn fast about social media and how to make it work in her benefit was great.
That said, as I said earlier, towards the end, I hit a hard stop period, went back and went, um what a few times. It just took me a bit out of the story. And as I said above, the epilogue was a letdown. I really needed it told from Breanna's point of view.
"Missing White Woman" follows Breanna. She's in New York City for the first time with her new boyfriend Ty. Breanna has a bad case of arrested dreams (not development, dreams) because of something from her youth that continues to cause her mother to harp all over her. She's feeling a bit stressed about Ty, and the fact he seems obsessive and stressed over work. Staying at their AirBnB has her stressed though, because a local woman, named Janelle Beckett (the missing white woman of the title) has gone missing and many in the AirBnB neighborhood knew her. Breanna feels like the neighbors are hostile (outside of one). And when she's about to leave, she goes downstairs and finds a dead body in the rented home and her boyfriend missing.
Things I loved, I absolutely loved us slowly finding out what happened to Breanna and why she's reluctant to trust anyone and why she does not want to give up on Ty. Also, it was great to see her establishing a....friendship I guess we can call it with someone she has not spoken to since college. Watching Breanna doing her own investigation into the neighbors, Ty, and even Janelle Beckett was great. Garrett tosses in a podcast host who was one of the first to sound the alarm on Janelle missing into the mix and plays with how social media makes every white woman out there to be a victim. I loved how this all came together.
The flow of the book really does work there until we get towards the 90 percent point of the book. I also thought the development of Breanna into someone that has to learn fast about social media and how to make it work in her benefit was great.
That said, as I said earlier, towards the end, I hit a hard stop period, went back and went, um what a few times. It just took me a bit out of the story. And as I said above, the epilogue was a letdown. I really needed it told from Breanna's point of view.