7/1/2023 0 Comments The leaving tara![]() ![]() ![]() This gimmick helped distinguish whose chapter was whose, but then shouldn't the rest of the chapter read like a different person each time? It was also confusing because the words were all artsy, swirling around the page and put in boxes and what not, but then the "voice" of the chapters were identical. ![]() ![]() I feel like it would have been much stronger if we actually had the characters narrate. The choice to write this in third person.There was literally no reason that it couldn't have just been those 2 kids who went missing - we got no insight into the other kid's lives anyway, they served absolutely no purpose. It felt lazy, and if your fear was that you lacked the ability to create 6 distinct voices, maybe you shouldn't have had 6 missing kids. I really didn't understand this decision. The choice to only have 2 of the 6 missing characters get chapters.So here are some bullet points of what I didn't enjoy. And since I've already dedicated too much time (aka 432 pages) to this story, I don't have the desire to write a well structured, thought out review. That's basically what I took away from this book. The concept was so fascinating to me, but while the journey to get there was almost bearable, the reveal to both mysteries was extremely unsatisfying. This story has 2 mysteries: where these kids have been for the past eleven years, and what happened to Max - the one kid still missing. ![]()
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