Book 9/30.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
All her life, she’s been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family’s Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who was convicted of the murders has unexpectedly been released from prison. The press is in a frenzy again. And suddenly, Kara is receiving cryptic messages from her big sister, Marlie—who hasn’t been seen or heard from since that deadly Christmas Eve when she hid little Kara in a closet with a haunting, life-saving “don’t make a sound.”
As people close to her start to die horrible deaths, Kara, who is slowly and surely unraveling, believes she is the killer’s ultimate target. Kara survived once. But will she survive again? How many times can she be the girl who survived?
This was my first Lisa Jackson read, though I have heard of her as she has written almost 100 books, and it was moderately suspenseful and engaging. That said, the reveal at the end was not believable and the characters were not as fully developed as they could be. There was also endless repetition of what happened the night of the murders that became boring to keep rereading.
The Girl Who Survived had potential to be a very interesting story but it is muddled by too much information and not enough real action. Also, it needed to be at least 100 pages shorter.
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** A guide to ratings **
1 star – did not like it
2 stars – it was okay
3 stars – liked it
4 stars – really liked it
5 stars – it was amazing
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