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buchweiser's review against another edition
4.0
Dieses Buch hat mich von der ersten Seite an gefesselt! Eine sehr gut aufgebaute Geschichte mit vielschichtigen Figuren, die einen immer wieder auf falsche Pfade lotsen. Bis zum Schluss wusste ich nicht, wohin die Autorin mich führen würde.
Letzten Endes hat mir zwar die Auflösung nicht ganz so gut gefallen, aber das tut der Spannung keinen Abbruch.
Unbedingt lesen!
Letzten Endes hat mir zwar die Auflösung nicht ganz so gut gefallen, aber das tut der Spannung keinen Abbruch.
Unbedingt lesen!
firefly8041's review against another edition
3.0
3.5. Easy to read, and managed to mislead me into a wrong assumption. Not really a stand-out, but I'll be looking for another by the author.
exorcismemily's review against another edition
3.0
I have mixed feelings on The Missing. I enjoyed the concept, but I ended up having some issues. I think I would have liked it more if it was shorter. The plot isn't crazy detailed, and a lot of time was spent waiting for something to happen. The "whodunnit" was different than what I expected, so that's always good. I got hooked on to some of the red herrings, so I was surprised at the end. Overall, I liked the story, but it was a little too long. It wasn't great, and it wasn't bad, but it's probably not something I would reread.
As a side note, there was a bit of victim-blaming that I wasn't crazy about. It wasn't happening the whole book, and I guess I kind of understand why it was in there, but I still wasn't a fan of it.
As a side note, there was a bit of victim-blaming that I wasn't crazy about. It wasn't happening the whole book, and I guess I kind of understand why it was in there, but I still wasn't a fan of it.
salreads's review against another edition
3.0
I am very conflicted as to how many stars to give this and what my thoughts are. This was my second Taylor audiobook. I loved the narrator who read both books and gives such a sense of the characters. Strangers was a favourite of last year, fast paced and original. I didn’t feel quite the same about Missing. It is the tale of a missing child and how a family lives with his being missing. The family is falling to pieces, the marriage is imploding and there are so many secrets. It is only when secrets are shared that the truth can emerge. It is deeply deeply uncomfortable as you watch them fall to pieces and as you feel their searing pain for their missing child. Gradually the secrets unravel, but the unravel was a bit stop start and felt to me a bit like it was being drawn out. There’s such a degree of tension and so many twists and ultimately very thought provoking.
exorcismemily's review against another edition
3.0
I have mixed feelings on The Missing. I enjoyed the concept, but I ended up having some issues. I think I would have liked it more if it was shorter. The plot isn't crazy detailed, and a lot of time was spent waiting for something to happen. The "whodunnit" was different than what I expected, so that's always good. I got hooked on to some of the red herrings, so I was surprised at the end. Overall, I liked the story, but it was a little too long. It wasn't great, and it wasn't bad, but it's probably not something I would reread.
As a side note, there was a bit of victim-blaming that I wasn't crazy about. It wasn't happening the whole book, and I guess I kind of understand why it was in there, but I still wasn't a fan of it.
As a side note, there was a bit of victim-blaming that I wasn't crazy about. It wasn't happening the whole book, and I guess I kind of understand why it was in there, but I still wasn't a fan of it.
toofondofbooks's review against another edition
4.0
I loved C. L. Taylor’s previous thrillers, The Lie and The Accident, they were both incredibly gripping and Cally is now one of my automatic must-read authors! I’ve had The Missing on pre-order since I first heard it was coming out but in the meantime I had the chance to get a review copy from Net Galley and couldn’t resist (I do still have a print copy on pre-order and am looking forward to adding it to my bookcase)! As soon as I found out I’d been approved I downloaded The Missing and started reading!
I was hooked from the beginning of this novel right until the end. The harrowing experience of a child going missing is one all parents must dread and to be trapped in a nightmare for months and for there to be no real leads must be a living hell. This is captured so well in this novel, I could really feel this family’s pain and the way they were slowly falling apart. I liked the fact that Billy was a teenager, as it made this novel a bit different and gave more scope for what might have happened to him – as with a younger child he could have been kidnapped – but he also may have chosen to run away from home and could be hiding out with friends or living rough somewhere. As a reader, it made the chance of him still being alive more realistic and so I was desperate to keep reading and find out where Billy actually was and what had happened to him.
The fugues that Billy’s mum Claire began to have were fascinating to read about, I was so curious about where she was finding herself and how she had got there. I couldn’t decide if she had perhaps killed her son and her brain was blocking it out, or if she knew who had killed him and her mind couldn’t cope with it, or whether she was just so distressed by his disappearance that her brain was switching off for periods of time. I found it completely believable as I have experience of PTSD, which I know is a different condition but it can cause periods of absence whereby the sufferer loses chunks of time and can come to not knowing how they got to a particular place or how much time has passed. I can see how it would interest a writer and it certainly makes for a very interesting and very unreliable narrator (and I do love an unreliable narrator!). The suspense that came from not knowing everything Claire was doing while in a fugue state really kept me hooked.
This novel is more of a psychological mystery novel than a thriller but it’s still a very intense read and one that will keep you turning the pages to find out what happened to Billy! I had my suspicions about who might know things about his disappearance but I didn’t manage to work it all out – I love it when a novel has an ending that I wasn’t able to figure out beforehand.
The Missing is such an intense and fascinating novel, it’s one you absolutely won’t want to miss! I’m now already eagerly anticipating C. L. Taylor’s next novel…
I received a copy of this book from Avon via Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
The Missing is due to be published on 7th April in the UK and is available for pre-order now.
I was hooked from the beginning of this novel right until the end. The harrowing experience of a child going missing is one all parents must dread and to be trapped in a nightmare for months and for there to be no real leads must be a living hell. This is captured so well in this novel, I could really feel this family’s pain and the way they were slowly falling apart. I liked the fact that Billy was a teenager, as it made this novel a bit different and gave more scope for what might have happened to him – as with a younger child he could have been kidnapped – but he also may have chosen to run away from home and could be hiding out with friends or living rough somewhere. As a reader, it made the chance of him still being alive more realistic and so I was desperate to keep reading and find out where Billy actually was and what had happened to him.
The fugues that Billy’s mum Claire began to have were fascinating to read about, I was so curious about where she was finding herself and how she had got there. I couldn’t decide if she had perhaps killed her son and her brain was blocking it out, or if she knew who had killed him and her mind couldn’t cope with it, or whether she was just so distressed by his disappearance that her brain was switching off for periods of time. I found it completely believable as I have experience of PTSD, which I know is a different condition but it can cause periods of absence whereby the sufferer loses chunks of time and can come to not knowing how they got to a particular place or how much time has passed. I can see how it would interest a writer and it certainly makes for a very interesting and very unreliable narrator (and I do love an unreliable narrator!). The suspense that came from not knowing everything Claire was doing while in a fugue state really kept me hooked.
This novel is more of a psychological mystery novel than a thriller but it’s still a very intense read and one that will keep you turning the pages to find out what happened to Billy! I had my suspicions about who might know things about his disappearance but I didn’t manage to work it all out – I love it when a novel has an ending that I wasn’t able to figure out beforehand.
The Missing is such an intense and fascinating novel, it’s one you absolutely won’t want to miss! I’m now already eagerly anticipating C. L. Taylor’s next novel…
I received a copy of this book from Avon via Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
The Missing is due to be published on 7th April in the UK and is available for pre-order now.
ingo_lembcke's review against another edition
4.0
Bought this very cheap the same day as I started it, currently not sure, wether it was a promotional price or wether it always is this cheap (1,39 Eur).
Stumbled on this book on The Dead Good Books Award for Most Recommended Book, this is one of 6 on the shortlist. Description from blurb and Dead Good Books sounded interesting.
Beginning is a chat protocol so this should be my kind of book.
Wow! Quite a page-turner, as I could not guess who was responsible (and what really happened).
A few red herrings where masterly laid, cannot go into details (even negative ones) without spoiling it. Very up-to-date with chat logs (later explained to be WhatsApp, but could also have been iMessage or whatever) and computer usage, also no mistakes, very well done.
So why only 4 stars? MC was a bit much, and the use of mental blackouts as a deux-ex-machina-like plot device just a tad too convenient.
Takes place in the UK (Bristol), so slightly different English, and I like it better, than some of the US counterparts.
Looked this up after seeing it on "Dead Good Books" mentioned above and then reading the 3 star review from Malia, and after finishing this, I started with another one Malia reviewed and rated even higher, also taking place in the UK (pre-Brexit, sniff, they are leaving our union, so sad) [b:Follow Me|27853619|Follow Me|Angela Clarke|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1447844458s/27853619.jpg|47427784]
Highly recommended. Will certainly read other books by this author!
Stumbled on this book on The Dead Good Books Award for Most Recommended Book, this is one of 6 on the shortlist. Description from blurb and Dead Good Books sounded interesting.
Beginning is a chat protocol so this should be my kind of book.
Wow! Quite a page-turner, as I could not guess who was responsible (and what really happened).
A few red herrings where masterly laid, cannot go into details (even negative ones) without spoiling it. Very up-to-date with chat logs (later explained to be WhatsApp, but could also have been iMessage or whatever) and computer usage, also no mistakes, very well done.
So why only 4 stars? MC was a bit much, and the use of mental blackouts as a deux-ex-machina-like plot device just a tad too convenient.
Takes place in the UK (Bristol), so slightly different English, and I like it better, than some of the US counterparts.
Looked this up after seeing it on "Dead Good Books" mentioned above and then reading the 3 star review from Malia, and after finishing this, I started with another one Malia reviewed and rated even higher, also taking place in the UK (pre-Brexit, sniff, they are leaving our union, so sad) [b:Follow Me|27853619|Follow Me|Angela Clarke|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1447844458s/27853619.jpg|47427784]
Highly recommended. Will certainly read other books by this author!
marnold126's review against another edition
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.0
cececole's review against another edition
4.0
Spoilers. I knew Kira was dodgy from the start and the fact Claire forgave her for not just cheating on her son with her other son but also making her a sex offender because of it makes me mad. I hate it when shitty characters have a happy ending because the main character decides to be the "bigger person". As a mother myself, I'd of acted very differently so other than the ending I loved the book.