I read Local woman missing by Mary Kubica last week, and have some mixed feelings about it. I knew nothing about it going in, except for the title, which is self explanatory. So, this book is a lot. The beginning is very intriguing. A married woman (Shelby), is on her way to cheat on her husband, but something happens to her on the way, and she never returns home. After her chapter is cut short, we switch to a POV of a girl who is held captive for eleven years in a basement of a house. The girl, ” Delilah” eventually escapes and you get to read all about it. And i’m not kidding, her escape takes a good portion of the book. I felt like i was reading it as it was happening in the real time. The writing is really detailed and descriptive. The book has multiple POV, with story alternating between present time and eleven years ago. Meredith’s POV is frustrating, downward spiral, where things go from bad to worse, until she eventually dies. Literally, she was juggling multiple, unrelated, shitty storylines. Some of them were unnecessary and didn’t pan out to anything in the end. Her behavior was unbeliveable, some of the events that happened were far fetched. You have your suspects from the beginning and chances are Bea is one of them. The ending is abrupt. There are unanswered questions and plot holes, or i missed something.. the police in this book is apparently useless.
by amazingamy19