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Book Review of Fragile (Hollows, Bk 1)

Fragile (Hollows, Bk 1)
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Psychologist Maggie Cooper and her husband Detective Jones Cooper live a quiet life with their teenage son, Rick, in a small New York town. But things suddenly get crazy when Rick's girlfriend, Charlene, disappears without a trace. Some people think she ran away, but Rick insists she wouldn't do that. Charlene's disappearance reminds the townspeople of a similar case over twenty years ago where another teenage girl disappeared. Her body was found weeks later and her killer put in prison. Will the past repeat itself in this small town?

This book was billed as a thriller. I would call it mainstream fiction. I listened to the audiobook which took about ten hours. I was nearly in a coma by the halfway point. There were too many characters. At first their stories seemed unrelated, but I quickly learned that all of the characters had a secret. Some of their secrets were new. Others were twenty years old. The biggest problem was the slow motion pace of this book. There were too many descriptions...too many flashbacks. This is my first book by this author. I'm not sure if I'll be trying another one. My rating: 1.5 Stars.