The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
Ratings7
Average rating3.5
im so happy I found this book.
Such a short book but everything was so detailed and I feel like I knew the characters in real life. that's how amazing the writing was.
This novel may have suffered from some poor editing choices - but the writing style kept me in. I love the combination of literary writing and exploration of crime.
4.5 stars. We have all read countless books about missing girls, but this felt different. It wasn't your standard mystery - so some readers may be disappointed if going into it with thriller expectations. It is a coming of age story; a division between childhood and adulthood; a before and after. I really enjoyed Tikka's narration as a child - a precocious, lively voice that made me smile.
I have had to DNF this title after around 30% for a couple of reasons:
First, I was expecting the narrative to be from Tikka's perspective as an adult as opposed to as a child.
Secondly, I didn't get on with the writing style and prose. There seemed to be a simile or metaphor every other page and that became very jarring and distracting. There was a lot of unnecessary description and the story was progressing very slowly.
Owing to this, I was not enjoying the book and have decided not to force it and move on to something else.