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Elizabeth Is Missing

Emma Healey

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Jul 28, 2014 Jenni V. rated it liked it

I knew Maud would be an imperfect narrator but I was given more information as a reader than I expected. She could hear conversations that helped me put things together even though she herself didn't understand the significance of what was being said around her.
It wasn't very suspenseful as a mystery but was an interesting read about mental decline and the fixations/paranoia dementia can lead to.
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Nov 12, 2017 Kim Kietzman rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This takes unreliable narrator to whole new level. This is another book I downloaded without really reviewing what the storyline was, but this time it worked out okay. Yes, the narrator rambles and stumbles through memory and current day, and it was frustrating. I think it was supposed to be - because you ARE Maud and that's her mind. It's really frustrating and claustrophobic, but I really wanted to see where it went and hey, that's what Maud has to deal with to figure out the mystery. I was a ...more

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