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Carregando... Proof of Liesde Diana Rodriguez Wallach
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Anastasia Phoenix has faced a lot of loss in her young life. After being moved around the globe with her mom and dad's engineering jobs, she and her sister Kiera wind up making Boston their home after their parents are killed by a drunk driver. There's quite a few books in this type of genre and while it's definitely a fast paced adventure, I wanted different reactions from the characters. There is a family mystery entangled within a race around Europe to find answers to Kiera's 'murder/disappearance'. Anastasia keeps reaching out to family friends and co-workers, and not everyone is who they seem. I found that frustrating while I read, always wanting her to be less trusting. By the time it resolves, it's clear that there is more to the story, and I hope in the next one, Anastasia is more careful about who she tells what. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Anastasia Phoenix has always been the odd girl out, whether moving from city to international city with her scientist parents or being the karate champ who speaks four languages--and most definitely as the orphan whose only sister is missing, presumed dead.When Anastasia finds her sister's bathroom covered in blood but with no body, she's the only one who believes Keira might still be alive. The suggestion that her devoted sister and legal guardian is the victim of a random, dead-end homicide is too much for Anastasia to bear. If the police refuse to investigate her sister's disappearance as a missing persons case, then Anastasia will have to do it on her own. Because nothing is as it seems, and Keira's behavior the last few weeks isn't making sense.Anastasia is sucked into an international mystery, tracking her sister across continents with the help of a mysterious Spanish boy she's starting to fall for. But Anastasia can't shake the feeling that someone else is pulling the strings... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This story drew me in right away, and kept me up reading past my bedtime! After my initial extra suspension of disbelief that was required for me regarding this underage kid travelling around to all parts of the world with only another underage kid as companion, I fell in love with the story. I'm not sure what led to that reticence in this case, since I know it would have been easier in a different historic period, or in a fantasy or sci-fi setting.
I appreciated the attention to detail in how the sisters each responded to their parents loss, and how much it shaped them. I enjoyed the attention paid to psychological detail. This also includes how Anastasia responded by slipping into a deep depression right after her sister disappeared. It took having something clear to focus on to drag her out of it. She did, at times, annoy me with how mistrustful she was of people. I realised this was very much due to the same trait in my own personality. It's not from losing parents to death, but to emotional neglect/abuse from a young age. I trust very few people. The mistrust schema has shaped my life from a very young age.
The story was fast-paced, and easy reading. I do think another spelling/grammar check would not be amiss. These were minor things, and didn't take from my overall enjoyment though. Julian ended up being my favourite character, amusingly enough. He has a good heart, underneath it all. He may have been ruined by Department D, and estranged from his family, but he doesn't hold a vicious grudge. He offers help he doesn't have to, especially once the teens primary source of funds dries up. He does have a bit of a reckless streak, and makes no bones about wanting to break open this story to recover what he lost as a journalist, but he respects Anastasia's decision, and never goes behind their backs to do it. He seems to have become an older (richer) sibling.
Highly recommended!
***Many thanks to Netgalley and Entangled Publishing for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. ( )