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A review by estelleidekreads
How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok
2.25
not every story needs a romance, this is one of those instances
it was okay?? i liked the mystery although i’d figured out part of it from the content warnings but pacing was off and there was waaay too much book left after the finale resolution. also the characters made some incredibly stupid decisions like yeah okay you’re teenagers but come ON!! and some of the interpersonal drama felt slotted literally just to advance the plot in a specific direction which i never like.
this book also features a character with either one (or both hands ?? that was unclear) having 6 fingers and obs it’s great to have added this kind of diversity but the way it was done felt off???? the detail was dropped at completely random times where it felt completely out of the blue and it was described in almost exactly the same way every time which not only felt clunky but lowkey tokenistic? kind of like when cishet authors add queer characters to tick the diversity box and keep dropping random reminders that YES THAT CHARACTER IS GAY!!! AND IT’S GREAT!! YAY!! GAY!!!
overall not bad but disappointing and kind of boring in parts
it was okay?? i liked the mystery although i’d figured out part of it from the content warnings but pacing was off and there was waaay too much book left after the finale resolution. also the characters made some incredibly stupid decisions like yeah okay you’re teenagers but come ON!! and some of the interpersonal drama felt slotted literally just to advance the plot in a specific direction which i never like.
this book also features a character with either one (or both hands ?? that was unclear) having 6 fingers and obs it’s great to have added this kind of diversity but the way it was done felt off???? the detail was dropped at completely random times where it felt completely out of the blue and it was described in almost exactly the same way every time which not only felt clunky but lowkey tokenistic? kind of like when cishet authors add queer characters to tick the diversity box and keep dropping random reminders that YES THAT CHARACTER IS GAY!!! AND IT’S GREAT!! YAY!! GAY!!!
overall not bad but disappointing and kind of boring in parts