No One Saw a Thing
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'Probably the most suspenseful book I will read all year.' Liz Nugent No one saw it happen. You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind. Everyone is lying. By the time you get to the next stop, you've convinced yourself that everything will be fine. But you soon start to panic, because there aren't two children waiting for you on the platform. There's only one. Someone is to blame. Has your other daughter got lost? Been taken by a passing stranger? Or perhaps the culprit is closer to home than you think? No one is telling the truth, and the longer the search continues, the harder she will be to find... Your favourite authors love Andrea Mara: 'Andrea Mara is a star.' Lee Child 'Andrea is an author to watch.' Sarah Pearse 'Mara knows how to take every parent's worst nightmares and turn them into top-class page turners.' Ellery Lloyd
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This was an absolutely fantastic book! Thrilling, twisty and full of tension.
I liked Sive, but as for Aaron and the rest of his friends I really struggled to understand why or how any of them were friends considering how they were constantly trying to outdo each other in terms of their achievements in life. Their constant sniping and one-upmanship was annoying.
Saying that, I still loved the book. It was compelling and if I'd had a physical copy of the book, I would likely have read it in one go!
I felt sorry for Sive, especially when Aaron kept refusing to keep an open mind and point blank refused to accept that a certain line of enquiry might actually be linked to his daughter's disappearance. Like, hello, your daughter is missing so surely you'd want to keep an open mind about something like that no matter how unlikely it might've seemed to you?!
Urgh, he really was an annoying, arrogant ass of a character!
Anyway, on that note, thank you to PH and Andrea Mara for the chance to read this excellent book!
Highly recommend it!
I was excited about this one but it wasn't for me.
This started quite strong, with a tense opening sequence of 2 children accidentally getting on a Tube train alone and only 1 getting off at the next stop.
After the first 20% however the pace slowed right down and became a bit of a slog, with short present chapters but longer past chapters which just became a bit samey and boring.
I skimmed through the the 40-60% mark and found barely anything had changed, then it eventually picked up again at the 80% mark.
For a short book, it felt dragged out and the big reveal wasn't all that worth it in the end.
