When her dad goes missing on a routine patrol, Grace refuses to believe he’s dead and fights the town authorities, tribal officials, and nature to find him.
One day, while out tracking clues, Grace is rescued from danger by Mo, a hot guy with an intoxicating accent and a secret. As her feelings between him and her ex-boyfriend get muddled, Grace travels deep into the wilderness to escape and find her father.
Along the way, Grace learns terrible secrets that sever relationships and lives. Soon she’s enmeshed in a web of conspiracy, deception, and murder. And it’s going to take a lot more than a compass and a motorcycle (named Lucifer) for this kick-butting heroine to save everything she loves.
My rating: 3/5
I received
an ARC from the Publisher in Exchange for an honest review.
Grace has
lived with her father her entire life, learning about nature, how to take care
of it and how to stay safe in it. So when her father disappears she refuses to
believe the local authorities who assume he is dead, and goes out to find clues
to prove he must still be alive, whether he might be, however, is a mystery.
I was very
impressed by the main character, Grace, at the beginning. She knows her father
couldn’t have simply died and left no clue, he taught her everything she knows
and is convinced that, if anybody can survive out there, it’s her father. So she
begins her journey to try and find evidence so that the authorities take the
matter seriously, leaving them with no other alternative than to investigate
the matter further.
However, as
the story progressed I found grace to be a contradictory character, stubborn,
egocentric, and even not very bright. She assumes every piece of evidence that
she finds is connected to her father, every broken branch, every torn leaf must
have been made by him or his captors, it was borderline paranoid.
Moreover,
the smart, brave girl we meet at the beginning somehow disappears around the
middle of the book, and is replaced by someone who, instead of collecting and
piecing together solid proof that her father is alive, runs and cries when she
finds what she was looking for, only to add more “tension” to the narration in
having Grace and her mysterious helper, going back and forth in the search for evidence.
The love
story was a bit contrived, if I’m being honest. Grace behaved badly towards
anybody under any circumstance, so it was a little hard to believe people could
actually like her.
I was
mostly intrigued by the mystery of what happened to her father, why did he disappear
without a trace? What happened? However, the narration and especially Grace’s
back and forth with finding the evidence made of the reading slightly annoying.
In the end,
this was a decent story but as a mystery perhaps not so much.
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