September 12, 2019
Searching
for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
After her
sister Sylvie goes missing, Amy questions family and friends to see if anyone
knows where she is. Although Amy has never been out of the state of New York, she travels to the
Netherlands, Sylvie's last known location. As her search continues, Amy begins to wonder
if she really knows her sister at all.
I love me a
domestic drama with lots of family secrets, also missing person stories, and even more, I love one told from
various points of view. This one ticked those boxes for me, but I still found the story disappointing. I didn't like most of the characters because they weren't that well-developed or unique - the male characters were all creepy, and except for Grandma, the women characters were all shallow (Amy's first thought when she hears Sylvie is missing is who is going to pay off her student loans now). There is drama and there are plot twists, but none of them were surprising or new. Although it's described as a mystery, there's not a lot about it that's mysterious, and there are enough hints for the reader to catch on pretty quick about Sylvie's whereabouts. I hope there is more plot and better characters in Kwok's next book.
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