The Shimmer on the Water
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"Maine, 1997. As the people of Fort Meadow Beach celebrate the Fourth of July, four-year-old Daisy Wright disappears and is never seen again... Maine, Present day. Fired from her job and heart-broken, Peyton Winchester moves back home for the summer. Bored and aimless, she finds a renewed sense of purpose when an ad for a journalism course reminds her of a path not taken. Returning to life in her hometown brings back all kinds of memories - including Daisy's vanishing when she was a young girl herself. As Peyton begins her search for the truth, new discoveries begin to intertwine Daisy's past and her present with irreversible consequences."--Publisher.
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This book was a Goodreads win in the Kindle format. I was interested in reading this book as I grew up in a town where a teen girl vanished without a trace on my 6th birthday. I could relate to a desire to solve the disappearance like the main character. I found the book fell flat in setting up the reason why Peyton, the main character, is obsessed with Daisy's disappearance. From the start, this detail bugged me. I really enjoyed the flashbacks to Peyton's mother's childhood and college years. I would have enjoyed the book more if it would have just been about the mother/daughter relationship and didn't have Daisy's disappearance as a main theme of the book. The book did have quite a few typos, which were very distracting. The kindle version was released prior to my win, so I was surprised they weren't corrected. That is a small issue, but they seemed to get worse as the book came to an end. I did enjoy the book, I just wish it would have gone deeper in some areas and the purpose was set up a bit better.
