Review: The Girl in the Mist

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Renowned author Delphine Larue needs a haven. A crazed fan has gone over the deep end, and she’s not safe. Her security team has suggested a house by a lake. Secluded. Private. Far away. In a beautiful area of the Northwest close to the sleepy town of Misted Pines. It’s perfect. So perfect, Delphine has just moved in, and she’s thinking she’ll stay there forever.

Until she sees the girl in the mist.

After that, everything changes.

Delphine quickly learns that Misted Pines isn’t so sleepy. A little girl has gone missing, and the town is in the grips of terror and tragedy. The local sheriff isn’t up for the job. The citizens are up in arms. And as the case unfolds, the seedy underbelly of a quiet community is exposed, layer by layer.

But most importantly, girls are dying.

There seems to be only one man they trust to find out what’s happening.

The mysterious Cade Bohannan.

Genre: romantic suspense

Publication date: January 2022

Mature content: yes

Review: I was somewhat disappointed in this book. At fist it seemed like a page turner - and yes, there are some amazing scenes throughout the book and a few sentences that are almost worth printing and framing. 

But...there were also lots of things that put me off:

• the title is misleading. The mystery of the "girl in the mist" is dispelled after just a few pages and has little to do with the remainder of the story
• some sentences and even paragraphs are constructed in a very strange way, mixing present and past tense when it's just one or the other -  and sometimes it feels like there's a jump in the story and we're missing information
• the fact that Bohannan's sons are called "boys" throughout the book felt really weird. They're twenty seven and still practically live at home and we only hear about them starting to date towards the end of the book. If I hadn't been told their age and that they worked with their father, I would have guessed them to be mid-to-late teenagers. Character development is somewhat strange in this book 
• the suspense plot the book starts with is solved quickly and then another plot, which drags on until the end, is super-imposed. I would have preferred a more streamlined story, to be honest
• The Girl in the Mist is a very, very long book and especially in the second part there are so many secondary characters thrown in (most of them dysfunctional couples, of which there seems to be an over abundance at the quaint little town of Misted Pines) that I lost track of all of them. At some point I felt like maybe I should be keeping a list of who's who 

So, even though it started more or less alright, The Girl in the Mist quickly turned into a book I couldn't wait to finish - but in order to move to something else. And as such, I can't bring myself to recommend it.

Happy readings!

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