Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Bring Her Home by David Bell


A teenager not being home at curfew time, a phone call no parent wants to get, and a lot of questions.

Summer and Haley were the best of friends since first grade, and now that they are teenagers they share secrets and go everywhere together.

Going everywhere together one fateful night turned into a nightmare for Bill, Summer's father, and Haley's mother.

The police were investigating everyone who had known the girls and everything that had happened to Bill and Summer before and after the death of Summer's mother a year ago.   I suspected a few characters as I continued reading and one in particular.

The police never had a handle on things because something new would turn up to turn the investigation back to square one.  Some of the findings were unbelievable.

BRING HER HOME led us through the horror of a child gone missing and dying as well as learning the steps taken in a police investigation with this type of crime.

The characters and their emotions were credible, but trusting a few of them was difficult. Bill was very emotional to the point of doing crazy things, but who wouldn't when your daughter was missing. The teenagers did some things that were quite unimaginable.  The neighbor, Adam, was too nice to be believable.

The secrecy of teenagers was one of the major themes and was very well done by Mr. Bell.

My only criticism is that BRING HER HOME was a bit long and dragged out.

All in all, though, the book kept me guessing, and the end was good.  4/5

This book was given to me free of charge and without compensation by the publisher and NetGalley in return for an honest review.



9 comments:

  1. Enjoy if you read this book.

    Thanks for stopping.

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  2. I've become impatient with books that drag but this sounds like it's worth reading anyway.

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    1. It is worth reading. I think you will like it, Kathy.

      Thanks for commenting.

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  3. So many books about missing girls. Hardly any about missing boys. Why is that?

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    1. True about no missing boys.

      Interesting comment.

      Thanks, Ti.

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  4. Sounds good but I always wonder about books that seem to drag out. Glad to hear the end was good. I agree with Ti. Wonder why that is.

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    1. It was good, but could have been a bit shorter.

      Ti did have a good point.

      Thanks for commenting, Mary.

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  5. I have this one on my Kindle. Haven't read this author before, but I like the sound of it.

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    1. You will like this book, Laurel.

      Will be looking forward to your thoughts.

      Thanks for commenting.

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