I had a hard time connecting with the characters.

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This book is captivating in the most basic of ways: it's a mystery and as a reader I wanted to know how it ended. I think if this book didn't have the "who did it?" element I wouldn't have been so invested in getting to the end.

The book is broken up into 3 parts, which is a cool idea and an interesting way to move the plot forward, but the sections don't really connect. The timeline for each part jumped back and forth and highlighted different time periods in the families life. It wasn't just each persons perspective of the family history, but different elements of the personal life and different sections in time. It didn't feel entirely necessary to get each persons aspect of what was happening. Especially because each section created a different view of the character in such a way that it felt like there were twice as many characters. The dad's perspective of the mom felt like an entirely different person once you were able to get into the moms head, and the same thing with the daughter and father.

The book starts in the fathers POV, which I found to be the weakest one. I'm not sure how I even made it to the second section, but I'm glad it did because I thought it picked up from them on. The father is one of those characters who doesn't think the police can do their job, even though it's their job and they're trained to follow certain protocols for a reason, so he goes out to try and do it himself. That alone drives me insane as a reader, but in the end all the work the father ends up doing is for nothing! It doesn't end up driving the book forward or help reach the solution!

Those were just my big issues with the book. This isn't a book I'd read again, but it is what it is in the simplest form: a mystery book and that inherently made it an interesting read. I keep reading because I wanted to see who did it. And the book did pick up a little bit in the last sections enough so that I was able to stay invested enough to finish it.