4 disco balls
Published: January 9, 2018 by Doubleday
Purchase: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BOTM $9.99 add on
Category: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Fiction
This book is the reason I need an extra shot of espresso in my coffee this morning. I may have stayed up until 2:00 a.m. last night (or technically this morning) reading the last 13% of the book. I thought, 13% left I can finish that in thirty minutes…um, I grossly underestimated how much time it takes me to read 13% – it was more like 1.5 hours or something like that: I obviously lost track of time. Plus the ending was where most of the action was and I could not go to sleep half way through it.
When I read the synopsis of this book I was like, “another child kidnapping storyline, why would you keep reading these Nikki, why?!” but, it was a Book of the Month option and getting good buzz that I thought I could muster enough brain power to commit to the story. It certainly was a well composed thriller that had me turning back pages to keep up with which character was whom. I was quite proud of myself that my inkling on who would be the perpetrator was correct. Go me 😉
Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna tells the story of the Brandt sisters, ages 10 and 8 whom are abducted from a parking lot while their single mother, Jamie, ran into a store to quickly pick something up. The understaffed local police are working the case, but the family hires the services of a successful private investigator, Alex Vega, in hopes she will find the girls quickly. Vega struggles getting the police to cooperate/work with her so she enlists the services of a retired police officer, Max Caplan, whose own relationship with the police department is less than stellar. As time is ticking the likelihood of finding the girls and finding them alive is narrower and narrower. It is a wild ride and moves rather quickly. You will also enjoy the chemistry between Vega and Cap, although it is not a love story to boot, the focus is on finding the Brandt girls and doing that quickly.
If you enjoy thriller/suspense books as much as I do, Two Girls Down is a worthwhile read. It may not have been 100% perfect, but I clearly needed to know what happened and those types of books regardless of how you feel about the ending deserve 4 stars, in my opinion.
I received an arc of this book from NetGalley for my honest review.
Saturday Nite Reader 
Great review! I SO wanted to get this from Book of the Month, but their choices recently have been stellar so I picked others instead. I may have to pick this one up at the library!
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Me too! I got Woman in the Window and was able to get Two Girls Down on NetGalley! I also want to read Bright as Heaven. So many books and not enough time to read them all now! 😉
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I agree!
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I completely agree. I sometimes wish I could just freeze time so I can spend more time reading.
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This was a great review
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Great review. I’ll have to check this book out sound interesting.
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Great review! I’m going to have to look into this one.
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Nice review! This is my sort of book 😀
I’m an average reader (speed wise), and also can’t stay up too late (i just pass out basically), so even short books could take 2 – 3 days…
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I have this one on my cloud, your lovely review is prodding me to get to it 😉
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Amazing review, definitely one that I want to read. I so understand the whole 13% thing, I’ve done that so many times. lol
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Great review! I love/hate when you are at the end of a book and you have to finish because of the action. I’ve had many late nights because of that.
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Not my kind of read, but I love your review on it!
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Great review! I understand the part about reading into the night! happens often ^_^
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Great review! I have this book on my radar ever since I first heard about it a couple of weeks ago, and I absolutely love and enjoy thriller & suspense books. And this one looks and sounds totally fantastic and right up my alley. Thank you so much for sharing.
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I love books where you get sucked in and it’s the wee hours of the morning before you finish and finally go to bed! Great review!!
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Completely agree with you! I thought it was four stars as well
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