Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker

Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker

This was recommended to me (and donated to the WHHS Library by) a fellow client at my hair salon.  When I posted that picture of summer reading titles on my FB, many commented how much they liked it.

The premise is that a mom, dealing with guilt from a car accident that killed her youngest daughter, goes missing during a storm.  Her oldest daughter, a high school drop out alcoholic goes looking for her.  The story alternates between their viewpoints over two weeks until their timelines merge. 

I don't get the hype.  

First, there is a glaring error in the weather.  It doesn't go from hurricane to thirty below in one night.  Furthermore, it's not hitting thirty below in October in CT.  Second, the story is taking place in the southern Berkshires.  A hurricane, if it were to still be hurricane strength by the time it got there, would be devastating; life wouldn't be back to normal in less than a day.  Third, the book was published during the height of Covid, but only one little girl is wearing a mask? No one else is?

On top of that, I found the writing flat, the plot too convoluted, and the ending downright comedic rather than a drama climax.   

Yeah, no.  Won't be a recommendation from me.

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