Three years after teenage sisters Emma and Cass Tanner mysteriously disappear from their well to do suburban home younger sister Cass returns out of the blue with an incredible tale of imprisonment on an unknown island off the coast of Maine.
Abby Winters and Leo Strauss, the psychiatrist and FBI agent who were originally assigned to the case reopen the investigation and slowly pull together the pieces of Cass's remarkably detailed story to find out what really happened, not only on the night of the sister's disappearance, but also during their upbringing in a dysfunctional family.
I was looking forward to reading Emma in the Night. I was in the mood for a thriller that I could lose myself in, this one had had very good reviews, and the storyline appealed to me. However, I found that this was a slow book that failed to capture my imagination - it seemed to drag on and on...
I didn't mind the style of writing or the way that the story was told in alternating chapters by Cass and Dr Winter but the book failed to grip me and there was simply no thrill or suspense here as far as I was concerned. I felt that the plot was flawed to the point of being unbelievable, plus the unappealing characters weren't developed enough to make me care about them or their outcome.
(I'm willing to believe certain unrealistic scenarios in a book in order for the plot to work but Emma in the Night simply had far too many of them.)
I'm astounded that this book has been so hyped and well reviewed as I found it to be a dull and disappointing read .
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