A review by dhasenkampf
Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, a Mother's Quest for Vengeance by Azam Ahmed

3.5

I enjoyed reading this book. It was a compelling story, and the author really made the setting come alive with vivid descriptions. But the timeline jumped around too much for my tastes. He would jump back and forth between different months and years between chapters and sometimes within them. I got confused about what had already happened. And I honestly would've preferred if he had waited a little longer to write the book so that we knew the final outcomes for some of the people discussed within. I realize this is real life and peoples' stories don't come to a neat end like in fiction, but so many storylines are left dangling, it was like a movie stopped 3/4 of the way through.

Still good, just not fantastic.