Missing

by Kelley Armstrong

[justine_manzano]

I always state that I'm a huge fan of Kelley Armstrong's in my reviews of her work. She always tells a great tale, and her characters are very interesting. I love her writing style. Even so, this wasn't one of my favorites, but even knowing that, it was still good.

Missing is a really well written mystery, with a lot of fun twists and turns. What would normally be five stars became four because, while I loved the main character, Winter Crane, I found her highly unlikely. In Panem, I had no problem believing that a sixteen year old girl could hunt, set traps, and lead a rebellion. In modern day America, I had a little trouble buying that a girl of the same age had not only done this, but also was a very intelligent student, who worked at a doctor's office and had commandeered an abandoned cabin to stay in. It was just a little much.

Still, she turned out being fairly interesting in the end -- if you suspend disbelief a little. The other two main characters, brothers Lennon and Jude (yes, that's a Beatles joke), were very interesting and well-faceted characters. Lennon was charming and Jude was kind, but both were suspicious, and I enjoyed watching them work with Winter as you and they tried to figure out who exactly was responsible for all of this insanity.

All in all, this is a fun read and I definitely learned to love these characters. This one, however, took a couple of chapters to really get into. Once I was in, I was addicted.