A review by vicktorea
Woman Last Seen by Adele Parks

Did not finish book. Stopped at 26%.

This is boring. I used to love domestic thrillers, but lately - they’ve been giving absolutely nothing. This initially sounded exciting - two different women going missing in the same week; both from loving and, seemingly, happy families, and a detective who has an inkling that they might be connected.

This is off to a very slow start and that’s what has been putting me off. We started off somewhat strong with one of the characters waking up somewhere strange and chained down in a room. We then get some of said character’s backstory and what she was doing right before she went missing. The problem was, I did not give a single fuck. The details the author gave felt unnecessary and they just weren’t interesting. Nothing about any of the characters was interesting and the author really lost me when she had her character refer to hip hop/rap as “angry lyrics”. It just didn’t sit right with me because anyone who knows the music genre knows it’s so much more than that.

If anyone wants to spoil the ending for me, feel free to do so (like I honestly mean it because, while I’m curious to know how it ends, I love myself too much to go through reading the process of reading a lousy book - life’s too short)!

Thank-you to NetGalley & the publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!