I am very confused about the good reviews????????

I thought this book was awful. The characters were shallow and hollow, I had no reason to like them or care about their plight. It is completely ridiculous that a man whose daughter is missing would be assigned to this case, much less this unit, since he would be clearly excluded from any such work. The grisly violence didn't work, it seemed completely gratuitous, as we had no background about why a serial killer became so twisted. The 'suspense" was scattered and seemed to be all over the place in scenes, especially toward the end, no congruent thought processes. The author seemed to have looked up internet articles on runaway and missing child stats and threw them in ad nauseam and almost verbatim from internet articles. The author tried to throw in stuff to make the teens seem real, like bands names, and etc. but it was a total miss. This book was a complete, laughable mess, I skimmed the entire second half just to finish it, since there was nothing of substance I would have missed. There are thousands of detective novels out there that are better, and I just will never understand the good reviews, but it was, in my opinion, a complete waste of time. Thank God its was cheap!

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