The forgotten girl book

An FBI Special Agent s violent past collides with the present in LJ Bourne s new blood chilling thriller of murder rage and dark secrets A dead girl in the woods A well known suspect Twenty year old secrets coming to light Special Agent Lynn Rivers is sent to investigate a nightmare of a case The mutilated body of her closest friend s daughter has been found at a campsite Lynn has known the victim all her life From the outset it s clear this will be one of the hardest cases she s ever worked on But she is determined to see it through no matter what she finds That promise gets harder and harder to keep as suspects are thin on the ground and the main one is a man Lynn once knew well A man who was the prime suspect in the death of another of Lynn s friends twenty years ago a cold case that still haunts her The two murders are different yet eerily similar To find the killer Lynn will have to face all the dark ghosts of her past And this time she might not survive it The Forgotten Girl is the first book in a brand new mystery series by LJ Bourne Lynn Rivers Mysteries If you enjoy psychological thrillers full of dark twists and turns this book is for you A must read for fans of AJ Rivers Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh The Forgotten Girl Lynn Rivers Mysteries Book One this book is a 1. The forgotten girls 7 star at best it s just not good or well thought out don t get me wrong I love tropey books but this was too much we had the typical traumatic experiences as a kid led MC to be a cop which is to be expected then we had the current murder of someone close leads to clues and curiosity of old unsolved murders and then MC doesn t feel like it s important to tell her partner about clues therefore causing a rift and so many it was over the top doing too much couldn t pick one and roll with it Bourne smashed every single existing trope together into this story even the cop partners who slept together but decided they re better off ass friends. Girl forgotten karin slaughter kindle there was also a ridiculous amount of red herrings used in this book first we think it s Ryan then we suspect Ben who s last name is Steele sounds fake but I guess it s not then we suspect Ryan AGAIN then it s Alicia then it s the entire film crew and finally we find out it was just Kyle talk about lackluster and uncreative I want to talk about Gerry a little bit we re told he s some horrible despicable person as is the rest of Ryan s family I guess but on page he s creepy at best he s polite he does nothing of note that would lead me to believe that he s a shitbag but it s emphasized heavily that he and his brothers are all disgusting people sure he s creepy and a little odd sure the conversation of him wanting Ryan to lie to the police that he wasn t there the night of the murder not the one you re thinking btw sure he s seedy but all of the shady things he supposedly does is all off page how am I supposed to believe he s shady when he s a regular dude on page the author definitely needs to get better at writing characters we get so many that are emphasized as important but straight up disappear the sheriffs daughter the entire film crew the man cop Nate Ryan s dad Lynn s sister the list goes on why bring them up make them so important and then just do nothing with them there was so much potential for Lynn to be the role model advisor to the sheriffs daughter because her father was also sheriff but no we see her at the crime scene and then she s gone I have to say the characters were so terrible nobody had common sense no one Ryan was actually so stupid it hurt why would you be completely oblivious to the fact that when asked your mom who is GOING THROUGH CHEMO said she didn t clean the cabin you ve been staying in why wouldn t you be slightly concerned that someone broke in cleaned said cabin and could potentially be inside especially when you are being framed for THREE murders someone is contacting you through an unknown phone number and your mom admitted to not being up there recently as much as this book spouts oh he has PTSD he can t sleep blah blah he has zero survival instincts and is as dumb as a rock Lynn was lacking all common sense whatsoever why would you keep clues and secrets when you re working a case that is close to you why would you hide the fact that you met up with an old friend who was arrested on suspicion of murder because he s been doing some investigation on his own end for however smart I m led to believe Lynn is shes just not I get that this situation would be hard to cope with that it would make everything spin out of control but for the love of god if you can t handle it then say so TJ was built up to do a two timing thing but it just didn t happen his anger was implied but not shown he was as interesting as a brick wall there was a scene where he was near Shanna s apartment to meet Kevin where we get told he s going to her apartment afterward but when the conversation ends he goes now idk what to do and proceeds to not go to the apartment the most infuriating thing that this book did ignoring all the grammar mistakes is the constant push of Alicia s murder and of her parents murder we get multiple scenes that are oh this is odd it connects to this 20 year old murder of my bestie family and that s it no progress gets made in the search for their killers we get it shoved down our throats only for literally nothing to happen I get that it s the first book of several following the MC but building up the main point for 80% of the book only for the end to be oh hey I have this elaborate plan to find who murdered those people but we re not actually going to do anything in this book which pretty much forces you to read the next it s a bait I m not baited I will be digging for the answer to who killed these people without reading the book because I hated the characters so much before writing this and talking about it to a friend I was like yeah this book is good the story is there the characters are complex yada yada but the I talked about it the i realized that it wasn t good the so called complex characters are really shallow and boring they re made to seem complex yet there s not a single instance where I m convinced they are there s too much bullshit happening none of which gets resolved and the characters are insanely boring the author did way too much nothing was resolved I left with questions than answers and the only reason I kept reading was because I wanted to know if the author would end it in a good way an observation I had revolved around Gerry the conversation with Ryan made me very suspicious and I genuinely thought the author would give me whiplash with the twist that HE was the killer what an interesting and different take on this genre but no it was Kyle Gerry had two on page scenes another reason I think it would ve been a good twist since we don t get to know him clearly not enough to mean that much but just enough to have shocked me if he did it instead of taking creative liberties and being creative with the plot the author did the laziest thing possible The Forgotten Girl Lynn Rivers Mysteries Book One This is a great start to a new series with action from start to finish This is the first of many I hope cases of Lynn Rivers and the FBI And what a nightmare of a case Could the killer be someone she knows A definite edge of the seat thriller that I did not want to put down Love it as much as I do Book 2 is already available The Forgotten Girl Lynn Rivers Mysteries Book One WOW Action from start to finish I couldn t put this book down an edge of the seat page turner The Forgotten Girl Lynn Rivers Mysteries Book One