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A teenaged track star and her younger brother go for a run while on a vacation with their parents in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. An incident occurs, the boy is found in the woods badly wounded and his sister is missing. Descent by Tim Johnston is a novel that kept me up late at night so I could read "just one more chapter." But then I would read another chapter or two after that...you know how that goes! The mystery of what happened to the sister is intriguing, of course, but also interesting is the way each of her family members handles her disappearance. Worth the read!
Good characterization and sense of place in this thriller about the disappearance of a young girl and its shattering effect on her family, but there are some details that are a bit fuzzy and a huge coincidence that leads to the climax.
I will give a book about 100 pages to get into the story and then move along at a good clip but this one was so slow and so boring by page 100 I just couldn't continue. This is a first 'adult' novel for Johnston but he'll have to get better before I'd try to follow his writing, just not written very good at all and I absolutely hate italics! don't understand what anyone thinks it adds to a book or story it's just and irritation in the writing style. I thought it would be a thriller but by the time I quit I didn't care about any of them or what happened to the girl.
I detested this literary style and suffered through 100 pages. I thought it was boring, confusing and at times I didn't know who was speaking since there was five narrators . It jumped back and forth in time. dreams or real; I wasn't sure. It was supposed to be a thriller but I wasn't thrilled!
For 150 pages or more I didn't much like the writing style or plot of this book. I am glad I stuck with it, though, because the story took an amazing turn near the end, with a character who'd seemed hopeless suddenly showing a startling commitment. Altogether it's a brave book that challenged some of my preconceptions.
