The Missing Girl

Read by Drea

The book I read was called "The Missing Girl" by Norma Fox Mazer. It followed the lives of Beauty, Mim, Stevie, Fancy, and Autumn, five sisters each with starkly contrasting personalities, daily struggles, and agendas. It also follows the life of a man. Meticulous and calculating, this man watches the sisters. He is a lonely man and watching the girls, giving them his own nicknames, picking his favorites, makes him feel as if a void in his life is being filled. But eventually, watching them is not enough to satisfy his loneliness. And with the girls and their family so preoccupied with a family crisis they don't realize until it's too late.

This book reminded me of the book "The Lovely Bones" because in both the antagonist is a calculating, orderly man. Unlike "The Lovely Bones" the bulk of this story is concentrated on before the man snatches one of the girls and the ending is somewhat cheerier. I liked this book. The intricacies and thoughts of each girl were interesting to read as were the thoughts of the kidnapper.


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