Rebecca McKanna
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Chelsea has been her best friend most of their lives and more than friends for much of that time. She is now an Episcopal priest and maaried but she has never gotten over Abby. Bree has been friends with Chelsea and Abby since high school but has always felt insecure beside their wealthy upbringings. She is now a professor and having an affair with a much younger student.
I have mixed feelings about Don’t Forget the Girl by Rebecca McKanna. It’s well-written andI liked the concept. It’s true that we always remember the names of serial killers but rarely the names of their victims. In fact, I’d guess everyone reading the book sill guess who Blue was patterned on. So it was a nice change to make the victims (because those left behind are also victims) and how they were affected the main theme of the novel.
The story is told from the three different perspectives with Chelsea and Bree’s story told in third voice while Abby's story is in second voice. The story also goes back and forth in time.The problem is, outside of their grief, there is not enough here to make me feel connected to their lives and what is here became repetitive- Bree’s insecure, Chelsea’s angry, neither can move on. By the end, the last few pages were a struggle and I just wanted it to be over.
I received an arc of this book from Netgalley and the publishers in exchange for an honest review… (mehr)