Book review: The missing girl

Well as the title says this a book review so the missing girl is about this family and in the beginning it seems all okay but as the title says its about a missing girl named autumn which is in the family and in the beginning it sort of introduces the family and you get to see what the family is like and you get to see what the kidnapper is like. He watches girls as a recreational activity and thinks its okay to do. Then eventually as time goes by he starts to talk to autumn and he gives her gum and when she gets a little lost she asks him for directions and it all kicks off from there. It also introduces the other members of her family like Beauty who is a love stricken girl who every other boy she sees is the next boy she falls madly in love with. She is just one of those people who just really want to feel loved, and will do anything to get it. Then there are her other sisters who are not majorly important but you do learn a little more about them as time goes on it turns out that her sisters have found love but not poor Beauty. 

The major theme of this book I would have to say is no matter how many problems there can be in a family they can always be fixed, and be a family so stick to your family like glue because they are always    there for you if you need them or not. The reason why I think this would be a major theme is because throughout the book everyone has major problems like their mom has a cigarette addiction and their dad hurt his back really bad so he can't work for a while so that leaves them really poor. Beauty wants to just run away with a guy to somewhere far away because she thinks everyone is really just plain, and she doesn't want to think of who she is leaving she is just being selfish. Then there is one of Autumns sisters i can not remember she is really special and she talks to herself and she does not have a care in the world even when her sister Autumn is kidnapped she does not really seem to care.


The style of this book was first person but it would switch characters like every chapter so you would know what every character was thinking at that time in the book. There was no definite Narrator in this book so I really could not tell you who was the narrator or if there even was one. The main character at first I thought was Beauty but I was dead wrong The actual main character(s) was the family! It really surprised me at first but when I saw that it changed characters every chapter so their is no definite narrator but the family itself!


If there was an audience I would suggest this book to it would probably be teenagers because their more mature than a little five year old because there is a little bit of disturbing content in this book. That is to be expected though because a girl gets kidnapped! Also because the kidnapper does some pretty gross stuff to her.


    If I had to rate this book out of 10 stars I would Rate it a seven because it is a little boring in the beginning but almost all books start that way to describe the characters and sort of describe the situation and where they are. This is the story of five sisters—Beauty, Mim, Stevie, Fancy, and Autumn—and the man who watches men.

He could be any ordinary man . . . but he's not. Unaware of his scrutiny and his increasingly forbidden thoughts about them, the sisters go on with their ordinary lives—planning, arguing, laughing, and crying—as if nothing bad could ever breach the security of their family.

In alternating points of view, Norma Fox Mazer manages to interweave the lives of predator and prey in this unforgettable psychological thriller. Source: Amazon.com Another person said:“The Missing Girl is an urgent, daring, compassionate thriller. Put it down — I dare you!” (—Tim Wynne-Jones, award-winning author of The Boy in the Burning House. ) Another person said: “This well-crafted thriller with mythic undertones...offers readers rewards beyond sensationalism.” (School Library Journal (starred review) ).