Reading Challenge and Review

A new years means a new reading challenge. Last year I wasn't at all successful with my reading challenge, because to be quite honest, I went on a severe book slump. But I guess that happens to everyone right? So a fresh start brings me a fresh new reading challenge and my challenge is to read at least 50 books. 50 seems like quite the small number, but coming out o book slump, 50 seems quite large. 

Which now brings me to the first book I have read this year: Daughter by Jane Shemilt. I'm going to try and write Non-Spoiler type reviews, because I know there are people out there who hate spoilers, as do I. So I will try my utmost best, to not give a lot away. but bearing in mind, I'm actually really not that good at writing reviews. Well, I'm not good at writing anything, period.

 

My Rating: 2.5/5 Stars

The Plot: Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.

But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play, Jenny’s seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.
As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios—kidnapping, murder—seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter’s disappearance, she’s still digging for answers—and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she’s trusted, everyone she thought she knew, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she’d raised.

Review: I'm not really one for mystery books, it's not my kind of thing. So when a friend of mine recommended this book to me, I put it off for quite a while. When finally a couple of days ago, I picked it up, and read the book in 2 sittings. and let me just tell you, I was rather disappointed. How can an Author write a 400 page book, only to end it very ambiguously? I was so into the book, it did get quite interesting but the ending was far too fast paced and ended so abruptly, I was sat around for half an hour rather confused. What exactly did happen the night Naomi disappeared? Although that was the main question of the story, we don't actually get a definite as to what really happened.

So, overall, this book, was a huge disappointment for me, and I know I won't be reading another book like it quite soon.