Review: Don't Try to Find Me - Holly Brown

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Review: Don't Try to Find Me - Holly Brown - July 2014

For as long as I can remember I have always loved my Mysteries and Crime stories but for me to enjoy them, they have to be intriguing and fast-paced and hold my interest right the way through otherwise they can become quite boring and start to blend in with all the others I have read. This book I had been looking forward to reading as it sounded like something up my alley and it was a really good read and if you love mystery novels then you will enjoy this too. It reminded me a cross between Jennifer Egan's Mystery Novels and the book Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight - two books I enjoyed also. In Don't Try to Find Me , Marley is a fourteen year old girl who has run away from home and left behind a message for her mother and soon becomes the hunt for Marley and where she might have gone. We soon discover that the relationships between Marley and her parents have been strained and that things behind closed doors haven't been what they seem and of course we all know that appearances can be deceiving. It turns out that Marley has run away to be with a guy she met on the internet , but is he really what he says ? When you don't know who to turn to anymore , who can you trust but the one you have fallen in love with ? This novel follows the 3 week period of Marley's disappearance and is told in two POV's . The POV of Marley and what she is experiencing and her adventures and the POV of Marley's mother Rachel and what she is going through as of course secrets are being spilt and it seems the public are pointing at Rachel as the reason her daughter has disappeared.
If you are needing a fast-paced mystery novel and wanting something different to read and loved Reconstructing Amelia, then check out "Don't Try to Find Me" by Holly Brown and once finished, this is an author you will be wanting to add to your keeping-an-eye on list.

 

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