Review: Want to read more
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2012
This would have been 5 stars but it started out a little bit slow and took too long to really get going. From the synopsis, I expected the "main" story about Chuck to somehow tie into the "back" story about Joe's missing daughter, but it wasn't all tied up that neatly. Despite my disappointment about not finding out what happened to Elizabeth, I liked the idea of Joe using what he learned to help other people find their missing children and could see this becoming a regular series. I wish we had gotten to know Meredith a little better, because I ended up having more sympathy for Jordan than her. I understand that Joe would have more in common with him because of the similar situations, but I would think that knowing the missing person would help a lot in figuring out how they would act and where they would go, and while we got details/facts about her life, we got very few pictures into who she was.Another reviewer complained that the narrator was completely unsympathetic and not very realistic, but I didn't feel that way. I did find it rather unlikely that he was able to easily beat up two men hired as bodyguards -- even though he was a former police officer, there was no suggestion that he continued training and working out to be able to do that. I thought his relationship with Lauren made sense -- people grieve differently and often blame those nearest to them -- but I didn't really understand either what Chuck did to warrant such intense loyalty, or why Joe left and didn't speak to him if they were supposedly BFFs.  I get that there was a suggestion that Joe did something to his daughter, but it didn't seem like anyone took it seriously, and so I wasn't sure what the big "disgrace" was from the police. Just because a grieving father cussed out his boss? Didn't make sense.Except for that, the story was really good, kept me up past midnight reading, and left me wanting to know more about Elizabeth.  I would read a sequel to this book, since I think there should be a lot of stories that could be told.