Somebody's Daughter

Analysis:  The search for a missing girl by the police and family while trying to answer the question of how is her father, which two men could possibly be.  But which one is it?

Reaction:  The story of the missing girl was interesting, but it almost seemed secondary to who the mystery of who her father is. I wonder how the book would have been different if the two were flipped.  You do eventually get your answer, so that's nice in that just doesn't leave you hanging and wondering.  The flip side of that is that I saw the end coming so you didn't get that curve or element of surprise at the end.  It also crossed my mind that it would have been interesting to have the two potential fathers searching for the girl together instead of briefly crossing paths at the end of the book, but that's neither here nor there.  Just my opinion.

Courtesies: I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway so thank you to the author, David Bell, and the publisher, Berkley Books, for making that a possibility and putting it out there for readers and reviewers.

Sets Sail:  July 10, 2018 

The Prisoner In The Castle

Analysis: A group of spies are imprisoned on an island off the Scottish coast during World War II, in order to prevent the secrets and inside information they know from getting into enemy hands.  They are deemed to know too much and are security risks, so they are banished to this island for what they know until the war is over.

Reaction: I liked this book, but I didn't love it.  I did not know it was part of a series, this is book #8 and the most recent addition.  But it reads well as a stand alone book, if you have no prior knowledge of the characters.  So in that regard, it's a plus.  But, the number of characters was just too much for me.  It was difficult keeping everyone straight.  I understand that many were needed because of the way the story was and not everyone was going to make it to the end.  I kept thinking that it was like a game of Clue, with double the amount of suspects.  I think if I were to read this again, I would pay closer attention to some of the details that seem insignificant at the time but turns out to be huge later on and you find out it was a bread crumb.

Courtesies:  Thank you to the author, Susan Elia MacNeal, and the publisher, Bantam Books, for the opportunity to read this in advance and give my honest opinion of it.  As per usual, all thoughts are my own.

Sets Sail:  August 7, 2018 

The Last Thing I Saw

Analysis: Another book that alternates chapters between past and present, with the past being the main character as a family woman with a husband and son, and the present being with her in a mental institution, and the mystery being how one leads to the other.  

Reaction:  This book was interesting that "what the heck is going on" kind of way.  It does a very good job of keeping you interested though, so it doesn't cross into "I don't care what's going on" territory.  I wanted to see how everything fit together and that kept me reading.  All in all though, it was just kind of middle of the road.

Courtesies:  Thank you to the author, Alex Sinclair, and the publisher, Bookouture, for the opportunity to read and review this.

Sets Sail:  April 18, 2018...aka available now.