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Island of Lost Girls A Novel Jennifer McMahon Books

I actually give this book 4.5 stars. I read it in a few hours, I was interested throughout the whole story. I kept having ideas who and what and when I found out I was like 'oh ya that makes sense' lol.

I have to admit that one of the reasons I picked this one, since its not my normal storyline, is that it took place in the state I live in.....Vermont!


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Island of Lost Girls A Novel Jennifer McMahon Books Reviews

I found the back and forth time gap very confusing. While I usually have no trouble following like that, there was so much going on and so many characters, that I found myself constantly flipping back too remember who was who and what was what.

The writing was very good, and I saw the twist coming about halfway through, but that still did not ruin the story. The main character Rhonda was boring and uninteresting. Not my favorite Jennifer McMahon book.
I had high hopes for this book... I read a lot and am always looking for new authors. Unfortunately, this story was pretty predictable. You can see the story lines coming a mile away. The writing was pretty bad and characters hard to like. It took so long to invest in any of the characters, or see them as anything other than a name on the page, that I had to force myself to follow through to the obvious ending.

I really don't like giving any author a poor rating, but asked, and well, this was just not a book I'd recommend. Read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn instead. Or Still Missing by Chevy Stevens. Much better reads. (Especially Gone Girl. Go read it NOW.)
Summary
Rhonda is just waiting for her gas to be pumped when Peter rabbit appears in the Volkswagen Beetle and takes little Ernestine away. She doesn't know what to do she just watches, Trudy the girl's mother is furious that she just stood by and did nothing. She has an enormous amount of guilt and begins to pour herself into finding the little girl. Rhonda works phones at the call center and starts her own detective work to find out what happened to Ernie. Her childhood friend Peter is acting awfully strange and is beginning to look very guilty of being involved in the girls abduction, and the clues Rhonda find just lead back to Peter. All this brings Rhonda back to a time when she was younger and Peter's sister Lizzy, who also went missing, Rhonda wonders are the two connected and what exactly happened in 1993 when everything changed.

Review
I have to say I really enjoyed this book, lots of action and a ton of suspense. This is the 2nd book I have read by Ms. McMahon and this book did not disappoint me at all. It is a well written and easy to follow through all the twists and turns. I really could understand Rhonda and the dilemma she carries of loving her childhood friend and not know who to trust. I would definitely give this book 5 stars out of 5.
I was a big fan of Jennifer McMahon's earlier book Promise Not To Tell, so for the last few months, I've been meaning to read Island of Lost Girls-- it just never happened until this weekend.

About the book....

One summer day, at a gas station in a small Vermont town, six-year-old is abducted by a person wearing a rabbit suit while her mother is buying lottery tickets. Rhonda Farr is the only witness, and she does nothing as she watches the scene unfold. The incident seemed so surreal, that she hardly realized a crime was in progress, and that the girl was being kidnapped. The little girl gets into the VW Bug with the rabbit , smiling while the rabbit even takes the time to fasten her seat belt.

The kidnapping forces Rhonda to face another disappearance, that of her best friend from childhood - Lizzy Shale who disappeared (13) years earlier. A person in a rabbit suit was around at the time of that abduction as well. Rhonda helps join in the search for the latest missing girl, partly out of guilt for her lost friend.

This book was one of those creepy, psychological thrillers, that makes some people (like me), a bit uncomfortable--squirming, and feeling a little hestitant to turn the next page. There were just 276 pages, culminating in a somewhat predictable conclusion. The book was still a worthwhile read, but in my opinion, it does not compare to Promise Not To Tell.
It took me a bit of time to identify characters and their place in time; either 1993 or 2006. The white rabbit's existence was never explained (my opinion only) and since it was a main piece of the story-line I was running on empty some of the time. Finally 2/3 through the book I understood what was and had happened.
I started reading McMahon books with Night Sister and The Winter People, which have a very different, but at the same time similar element. This is the first of her earlier books that I have read and her style is very evident throughout. Without spoiling, the elements that she added into Night Sister and Winter People have perfected her style. I still enjoyed reading this one though.

As usual for McMahon, she crafted an intense story that deals with multiple generations of people and the story weaves back and forth through time. I've read some reviews that say this book was predictable but I didn't find that to be so. I had my suspicions about events taking place in the book, but then she surprised me and threw in plenty of twists and turns. It's so much fun to read McMahon because you are constantly guessing and that makes you want to continue reading. To me, she's the type of author who writes books that I want to stay up all night reading, just so I know the outcome.

Even though I really enjoyed the book, I didn't care for the main character, Rhonda. She came off as a weak woman. She flip-flopped her loyalties, and even though she was missing a lot of information, it was sort of infuriating to listen to her piece things together. She was naive and weak and those aren't characteristics that are likable in a main character. She spent her entire life pining away for a man who doesn't want her, has a degree in a STEM technology and yet, blows off interviews. Who's paying for your apartment and groceries, Rhonda?!

Overall, it was a very entertaining book and if you can get over the weak main character, it's well worth the time.
I actually give this book 4.5 stars. I read it in a few hours, I was interested throughout the whole story. I kept having ideas who and what and when I found out I was like 'oh ya that makes sense' lol.

I have to admit that one of the reasons I picked this one, since its not my normal storyline, is that it took place in the state I live in.....Vermont!