The Weight of Silence in Pick-a-Shelf

Feb 01, 2018 Jenn rated it liked it

Shelves: 2018-cover-to-cover

Kidnapping books are usually not me favourite type of thriller/horror. This one had a lot of moving points to it. A lot of characters telling different parts of the story by chapter. And nothing works out exactly as it should in a happy shiny way. I can’t say I felt that I was in love with any of the people in this one. Except maybe the brother Ben. He was a great big brother. With lots of respect for the right people. And maybe Louis even if he could never really get over Toni and was in a love ...more

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Jun 06, 2010 Suzanne rated it really liked it

Shelves: relationships, suspense, bookmooch-book, mystery, family-dynamics

It's always the ones that we don't suspect.

Here are two families whose daughters are taken away out of their bedrooms in the middle of the night. One of the daughters is whisked away by her father. He likes his liquor and is very abusive when intoxicated. The other daughter is found in the woods on the same night.
She is beaten very badly and has been sexually abused.

One of the girls hasn't said a word in four years and what the medical profession term her as a selective mute. Calli is the one wh ...more

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Jan 01, 2010 Tara rated it really liked it

This is a gripping tale about a young girl who was taken into the woods due to her drunken father's rage, the same night her friend, Petra also goes missing from her bed. Told through the voices of all the people involved this story reminded me of a Jodi Picoult novel as the events led into other revelations about the character's past and relationships with one another.
It would be a frightening thought to lose a child in the middle of the night and I think that Gudenkauf did a nice job portrayi ...more

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