Review: If You're Going to Kidnap the Wrong Victim, Don't Grab One With Superpowers
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2013
The Wrong Girl is your typical abduction tale in relation to the crime, but not so with the characters.  The two kidnappers are pretty cartoon like in their makeup, in fact one of them reminds me of cartoons, where there's a big dumb side kick that usually utters duuuuuhhh, I don't know boss, what will I do when repeating the insult the sidekick just didn't get.  The young female victim is not only a child prodigy in IQ, but wouldn't have been out of place on the TV show Heroes.  She can enter the mind of anyone, make them good at math or whatever subject they are studying amongst other things, while making witty commentary throughout the book.  She can also communicate through her mind with her mother, which is how the mother knows she was kidnapped in the first place.  I didn't find the mother acted like a mother would if her daughter was kidnapped, even with her superpowers. I can't see someone reading their daughter's diary and having a good time discovering what her daughter got up to at school, while not seemingly being affected by not knowing if her daughter will make it out of her dilemma alive.  The intended target's father (as the title implies they kidnap the wrong girl) is also a little too nice to be believable as well.But still this is a work of fiction, and it is an entraining read.  That's the most important element you want with a fiction novel.