The Mystery of Alice by Lee BaconMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Catchy enough to keep me going and entertained, I'd say it was a good choice for a May audible original. My reason for choosing it is actually that it was the best rated 6+ hour book and I need that long to fill up the time until June 17th, which still feels like a long way from now.
The book is narrated through a video diary that the protagonist, Emily Pose, keeps. From the start you realize, simply because she mentions it that she is the nerdy, smart thirteen year old that does not fit in with the "cool" kids in school anymore. Her first entry starts when she gets an invitation letter to a scholarship exam. Everything connects to that letter, that first entry.
The tint of thriller is what kept me going. Her friend’s, Alice's, disappearance and all the clues, playing detective and going on adventures to get solve this mystery speaks to the 13 year old me who looked for things like that everywhere, but failed to pick up a real life mystery to investigate most of the time, and once regretted looking for them.
I like teenage drama to some extent, a tiny extent though and that is why I got bored and hit pause a couple of times, that American-teenager-way-of-saying-'like'-with-every-breathe can only be tolerated by me for so long.
The knots of this story are well tied, I think. I don't know if I am not just smart enough or wasn't actively participating in the story line enough, or it is actually well made, but I did not see the ending coming.
Overall, an enjoyable read and a good book if you want something sort of entertaining that you don't want to invest all your emotions in.
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