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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
imagine what could have happened if Sammy and Crystal didn’t set the place on fire and burn all the evidence of abuse! 🙂 btw I hope the tutor and the mom burn in hell for both ignoring Sammy’s LITERAL cries for help.
I know that this book is meant to mirror the real cases of paperboys that went missing in Iowa in the 1980s and that those families never got closure due to the cases going cold. But that doesn’t mean the readers should get no resolution!!! Also wtf is with the ending. Crystal writes that article about the child predators being your neighbors, the good guy in town, people close to you, and then it just is some random stranger? It was a weird way to end it IMMEDIATELY after that article.
AND ANOTHER THING— what the hell was the tutor actually up to? Who was he expecting at the house when the detective showed up? Why was he at the library watching the detective and his kid? Why was he running around with binoculars?? Ain’t no way that man was actually bird watching.
I know that this book is meant to mirror the real cases of paperboys that went missing in Iowa in the 1980s and that those families never got closure due to the cases going cold. But that doesn’t mean the readers should get no resolution!!! Also wtf is with the ending. Crystal writes that article about the child predators being your neighbors, the good guy in town, people close to you, and then it just is some random stranger? It was a weird way to end it IMMEDIATELY after that article.
AND ANOTHER THING— what the hell was the tutor actually up to? Who was he expecting at the house when the detective showed up? Why was he at the library watching the detective and his kid? Why was he running around with binoculars?? Ain’t no way that man was actually bird watching.
Content Warnings
Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury
Nothing is graphic, everything is very vague and left to the reader’s imagination.
This book is a fiction based on “what maybe happened” to the paperboy murders in the 80’s. As a native Des Moines I enjoyed all the local references and exploration of how times were so different.
4/5 gripping and sad. A fictional account about the missing paperboys in Iowa in the 80’s no satisfactory ending. But hard to have one when it’s unsolved.
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Good one. Interesting and tough subject matter.
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A solid crime thriller-horror with characters I wish we had spent a bit more time with