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Title: The Van Apfel Girls Are GoneAuthor: Felicity McLean
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 304
Rating: 2/5
Summary:
In the summer of 1992, in a suburb in Australia, three sisters mysteriously disappear. Years later, one of their best friends return and is still trying to make sense of what happened back then.
Review:
So, this started off really well, but then it took a bit of a nosedive, unfortunately.
I really like the setting of this book; the summer and the suburb is captured really well, and I really liked getting to know this little community. I found the characters quite intriguing, both the main character whose perspective we see all of this from, and the sisters and their family.
There is a bit of suspense in here as well, and I quite like it when you learn early in the story that something is going to happen and then you read about the buildup to it. There's something haunting about it and in the beginning of this book I was loving it.
Then it just got... kind of boring, to be honest. I felt like the further in we got, the more repetitive it got and there are some things that are revealed that are really interesting, but they're few and far between. Then we get to the ending and I just wanted more from it; it was very dissatisfying to me because nothing really happens.
This definitely had an eeriness to it that I liked, but it doesn't quite make up for the other things in here that I felt were missing, and in the end, this was just... not a particularly exciting or memorable book for me.
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