The Angel Collector by Bali Rai.

This is a Young Adult book that I found really interesting. I thought it was well written in a style of teenage language which really interlocks in your mind to keep reading. The characters were developed to fit right in to the psychological mystery thriller it proclaimed to be. Some of the context was tense and demanding that connected the authenticity and emotional truth to approach difficult issue for teenagers. Some offensive subjects are written in a way that opens areas of discussion for the reader to figure out the motivations of the issue on their own. The author made it easy for the reader to read between the lines and not give away any spoilers until three quarters of the way through the story. For myself I was shocked when I started to sense a connection of who the villain was. Throughout the book there was a page or two with additional comments from the “The Angel Collector“.

It’s a story of Sophie, a teenager girl, missing and after eight months the police just place it on the back burner. However, Jit, the main character with a high IQ and narrator, starts his own investigation. He was Sophie’s best friend and soul mate who can’t accept the fact she might be dead. Plus, Sophie’s father, Stephen was close to Jit and also pushed Jit into looking for his daughter. They kept in contact by phone everyday relating back and forth with any latest clues either one of them would come up with. Stephen was helping by keeping a connection with the police.

Jits journey takes him from Leicester to Birmingham, London, Newcastle, and eventually Scotland. He took a few notes as he questioned people but most of it was on a list he kept in his head. He read the police report and took the information to the very beginning to where and who Sophie was last seen with when she disappeared. He left no rock unturned and came across some discrepancies and false leads but never gave up. The more Jit dug into some of the people Sophie was last with and the more weird stuff he found out, the angrier he got. The police bypassed information that they should have looked into. As Jit meets with some of the people that Sophie was around he discovers a cult in the mix and that other girls that had gone missing. That information was not in the police report. Being headstrong, Jit decides to invade the cult’s farm compound where he thinks Sophie might be hidden…What’s going to happen next…? Will Jit meet up with, “The Angel Collector”?
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