Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which she needs no one and feels nothing.
But a girl has gone missing, lost in the chaos of a bomb explosion, and the family needs Sunnie’s help.
Is the girl dead? Did someone take her? If she is out there, why doesn’t she want to be found?
It’s time for Sunnie to face her own demons—because they just might lead her to the truth about what really happened all those years ago. (Pub Date: Jul 11, 2017)
Honest review based on an ARC provided by Netgalley. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.
This was my first book by Kathy Reichs and unfortunately this will be my last for some years.I didn't hate the book or the story but her writing style didn't do it for me. I couldn't point out what exactly caused it but whenever I started reading this book, I'd feel sleepy and many times I actually fell asleep. The story was far from boring but I often had to read again the scenes because I had lost myself.
Sunday Night is a great name and also the main character. She has been forced to retire after an injury and her friend and parental figure Beau has found the perfect case to try help her recover. A bombing, a mother and child dead and one teenage girl missing, presumed dead. But, as she accepts the case, Sunday can feel there is much more to it.
My first issue was Sunday herself. I only know the Bones series from TV but something in Sunday's tone reminded me of Dr Brennan. She has this detached way of describing things, that is just like Brennan's—at least on TV—but all of a sudden she'd react emotionally. I felt as though she was forcing Sunday not to be Brennan, when deep down she behaved similarly. Again, to the TV version, for I wouldn't know how the books really are. This problem made it even harder for me to connect to her, even while suspecting how much she had suffered in the past.
Gus, her twin brother, could have been the likable character to neutralize this but he was barely present and rarely too useful. Sunday is really too good to really need a partner. Gus was more like her minion, and he didn't really have a story of his own. I did like him but not that much to save the book for me.
And we have the villains and the side characters. None have much either, except for one when the book is almost over and it still didn't redeem the character in my eyes. In sum, this book didn't have good characters.
As for the plot, it was interesting but the twists didn't have any weight. They weren't exactly predictable—well, some were quite a lot—, but I didn't find it all that smart. I won't call it boring, because it wasn't. It was simply too far from being mind-blowing or impacting or any adjective that could have saved the book. This whole paragraph applies to the conclusion, by the way.
I was disappointed because I have heard wonderful things about Reichs but this wasn't a bad book. Unfortunately, I was sure I had gotten above average and it sure wasn't.
Rating: 3 out of 5.
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