Lisa Naffziger

*Received via NetGalley for review*

Mostly predictable, Minus is the story of a young girl who was kidnapped at a young age and raised by her abductor, believing him to be her father until her real father takes drastic action. He shoots up the gas station where Beck hides in the bathroom, and kidnaps the man who kidnapped her in an attempt to get her to meet with him. Wandering alone, luckily Beck meets a kind policewoman and an online friend, and manages to save the man she sees as her real father while dealing with the implications of everything that's happened.

The color palette in muted, which serves the themes well, and Beck is confident and mature even when she's unsure what to do. The plot moves along quickly and is realistic.… (mehr)

I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this one. I definitely was drawn into the story, and the art style fits the story very well, but I got confused by the end, with all the twists and turns about who had been married to whom, whose daughter had died, etc. I had to keep rereading things, reminding myself that "Dad" referred not to her dad but to her kidnapper, especially with the earlier misdirection about whether or not her "dad" was violent (pulling out a gun, paranoid, etc.) and possibly a killer. I'm also a little unnerved about how kidnapper > psycho in the "who's the better parent" scale.… (mehr)