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  Jocelyn_Phoenix19 марта 2025 г.

  Underwhelming verging on disappointing. Also, I must be on some sort of streak of disliking popular books, lol.

  The general premise sounded cool: a child who has been missing for over a year returns home; she is so traumatised she can't speak; her sessions with a therapist, through play, reveal that more people can be in danger. But apart from the premise being there, the book didn't really deliver.

  The scenes with the therapist are somewhat interesting, but they are also very repetitive and cringey at times. Also, I have no idea how these things usually go, but they seemed too straightforward, if that makes sence. The child showed a chain of events with dolls very directly, leaving very little doubt, and cronologically. There was some tension but very little mystery.

  As for the perpetrators, the first one was a boring cliche (a dude obsessed with horror movies reenacting scenes from them) and the second came out of nowhere and held no substance. It is not a surprising twist if it has not built up and makes no sense, and the kidnapper wasn't and didn't.

  The therapist's mother was awful and borderline cartoonish. And the whole point of her character was so that Robin could think something like "I know how to deal with a narcissist, I was raised by one" when dealing with the kidnapper. Umm... Compared to that, there was too much of her and she wasn't even a good negative character, she just sucked.

  The romance plotline was absolutely unnecessary and stuck out like a sore thumb. There were too many Covid references that had no bearing on the plot whatsoever. And the writing was kind of meh.

  Overall, not thrilling or suspensefull at all, at least I finished it fast.

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