Vanished
by Karen Robards
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Author: Karen RobardsEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-05
ISBN: 045122101X
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: Any chance of reading another Karen Robards book has 'Vanished'!
Summary: 2 Stars
I thought this book had an interesting premise, and it was easy to feel sympathy toward the main character, which is something I couldn't say about most of the books I've reviewed in the last few months. Jake and Sarah could have made an interesting couple, but the story, and charaters, deteriorated about a quarter of the way through the book.
There were a lot of examples of stilted, cloying dialogue(especially Sarah freaking out that a colleague will suspect she and Jake were 'intimate', because they both had their shoes off, and there were pizza boxes on the living room table...maybe the colleague would have just assumed he was in a frat house!).
The repetition of 'Lexie, Lexie! IT WAS LEXIE!'started off as a believable way of indicating Sarah's shocked and disturbed state of mind, but Robards trivialized it by using it dozens of times in the space of a few pages. The more things reminded Sarah of Lexie, the harder it was to stay focused on the story. Robards tried to tie everything together, but she was really reaching by the final chapters. Characters spent a lot of time stating the obvious(an observation that people signed in to an internet chat room could be 'anywhere'...this isn't 1996 any more, the internet has been around a while, and most adults don't consider it to be 'magic' the way some of those cops did!)
The development of Sarah and Jake's platonic friendship into an all-out romance stopped being interesting somewhere through that excruciatingly long lovemaking session, in which Robards simply filled about 10 pages with variations on 'They had sex'.
The attempt to make far-fetched and unbelievable plot points into a 'surprise' finish dragged the story down even further...but the final few pages were unbelievably cheap. (SPOILER)
Guess who shows up? Guess whose name is only mentioned about 5000 times?
If you're stumped by difficult questions like that, you'll love 'Vanished'!
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