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jesbee's review
2.0
It was good! Obviously it was sad most of the whole book until the end, but the last 20% kept me on my toes!
natw3's review
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Super slow read, took me months to finish it. I could guess the ending almost from the beginning of the book.
sjhodgson's review
5.0
The girl who disappeared twice starts with a young girl being kidnapped from her school. Her parents are a family court judge and a lawyer. The local police and FBI have all been called in to help locate the lost daughter but due to the nature of her parents work they employ a group called Forensic Instincts. Forensic Instincts are a company with a former Navy Seal, a techno-wizard and a behavourist the best bit about this group is that they don't have to follow the rules of the law to investigate and can pass on information that will help the investigation.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and I am hoping it is the first in a series as you have begun to get to know the different personalities in the Forensic Instinct group and the novel finishes. This is the best Andrea Kane novel that I have read in a while please continue with these characters.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and I am hoping it is the first in a series as you have begun to get to know the different personalities in the Forensic Instinct group and the novel finishes. This is the best Andrea Kane novel that I have read in a while please continue with these characters.
anymsmom's review
5.0
I was hooked from the first page of this book. It was so engaging. I wanted to know everything about the members off forensic instincts and I could not put the book down. Highly recommend.
mftaylor's review
2.0
Another new author for me and another I probably won't bother to read again. Nothing genuinely bad about this book it was just nothing new and nothing stood out for me. It was a pretty easy read, perhaps too simple for the most part (writing seems to be for a younger audience at times, but content more for adults), and also predictable. Wouldn't expect anybody that read this to be shocked at the end, when they find out the details of the kidnapping. I knew who the kidnapper was and expected the characters to figure it out as well, but they don't until it's revealed in the book as a big shocker.
sherif's review
3.0
Overall, a nice, exciting, and easy read. I enjoyed the plot. The pace of development, and how they were intertwined together, made reading effortless and fluid. I was never bored reading the book. The dialogue can be a bit too cheesy and clichéd at times. The characters sometimes narrate a bit too much. The plot could afford a bit less word-for-word description of what the logic is, but it wasn't too much.
More details (some criticism) in the review in the spoilers section.
I should be okay with this, or at least used to it by now, but it is still jarring when a writer who is not very technical tries to talk about technical details. There is no way one programmer, no matter how intelligent, was able to write a whole AI program and house it in the basement of a house (a server farm? Doubtful). Especially a programmer who finds time to go to the gym, and be proficient in social engineering, etc...
There are other technical quibbles that come up every once in a while, like the "hacking" that happens all the time, revealing details that would take way more time to find in real life (imagine someone hacking into your computers and searching for a specific detail in a specific file, how long would that take?), but nothing crucial to the plot is based on that, so it's not too problematic.
A larger problem, I think, is Claire and her psychic abilities. Claire is a part of the book that sticks out like a sore thumb. She does not fit in, at all, with the atmosphere and image the author tried to create around Forensic Instincts. We are introduced to FI who are smart, rational, hard-working, analytic bunch. Their success is not based on magic, it's based on lots of work trying to understand human psychology, practicing infiltration tactics, breaking bureaucratic rules, etc., and then... a psychic? With real psychic powers? Who just sees things when convenient? Where does that fit in? Claire is the only mystical/magical component in this book that otherwise is trying to be as realistic about crime, law enforcement, and investigations in general. And Claire actually provides important detail and insight into the kidnapping, and law enforcement (which generally, in this age, would be extremely skeptical and unwilling to allow such a person anywhere near a kidnapping investigation) was okay with it. Not good.
More details (some criticism) in the review in the spoilers section.
I should be okay with this, or at least used to it by now, but it is still jarring when a writer who is not very technical tries to talk about technical details. There is no way one programmer, no matter how intelligent, was able to write a whole AI program and house it in the basement of a house (a server farm? Doubtful). Especially a programmer who finds time to go to the gym, and be proficient in social engineering, etc...
There are other technical quibbles that come up every once in a while, like the "hacking" that happens all the time, revealing details that would take way more time to find in real life (imagine someone hacking into your computers and searching for a specific detail in a specific file, how long would that take?), but nothing crucial to the plot is based on that, so it's not too problematic.
A larger problem, I think, is Claire and her psychic abilities. Claire is a part of the book that sticks out like a sore thumb. She does not fit in, at all, with the atmosphere and image the author tried to create around Forensic Instincts. We are introduced to FI who are smart, rational, hard-working, analytic bunch. Their success is not based on magic, it's based on lots of work trying to understand human psychology, practicing infiltration tactics, breaking bureaucratic rules, etc., and then... a psychic? With real psychic powers? Who just sees things when convenient? Where does that fit in? Claire is the only mystical/magical component in this book that otherwise is trying to be as realistic about crime, law enforcement, and investigations in general. And Claire actually provides important detail and insight into the kidnapping, and law enforcement (which generally, in this age, would be extremely skeptical and unwilling to allow such a person anywhere near a kidnapping investigation) was okay with it. Not good.
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