{Early Review} Cemetery Girl by David Bell

Publication date: October 4, 2011

Publisher: NAL Trade

ISBN-13: 9780451234674

Synopsis

Imaging yourself as a dad, but not any dad you are Tom Stuart a guy that has lost his little girl at the age of twelve, it's been four years since your daughter went missing and you find that you are the only one that still believes there is hope in finding your daughter Caitlin. Your wife has been slowly drifting away and you are the only parent that has hope that she may still be alive. It's really hard to imagine right? Well what happens when your wife pushes you to get rid of stuff that reminds you of your daughter? like the dog she used to love? or when your wife insist you have a memorial service, to honor her memory? 

You follow all of that to suddenly have your long lost child appear, and just when you start believing things will be good again, she tries to run away, she wants to go back to where she was during this past four years and she is now an entirely different person. All of this and more is what our main character Tom Stuart has to deal with in Cemetery Girl.

Review

The argument that this book presents is really compelling and a really interesting argument, I loved Tom's way of thinking and the way he wouldn't dare give up on his daughter. The obstacles that Tom had to go through showed us different parts of his personality and I'm not sure I agree with them all or that I had his back 100% of the time, but when you see he has to deal with a wife (Abby) that runs away to church instead of facing the truth or that tunes poor Tom out when ever she "isn't ready" to hear something you feel for the guy, specially when you start doubting how good of a mother can Abby really be.
This book is interesting but I just can't shake that sickening feeling I got during the last twenty pages that make me go from I like this book to... it was an ok read.


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