The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson

 

The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson

 

All her life, she’s been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family’s Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who was convicted of the murders has unexpectedly been released from prison. The press is in a frenzy again. And suddenly, Kara is receiving cryptic messages from her big sister, Marlie—who hasn’t been seen or heard from since that deadly Christmas Eve when she hid little Kara in a closet with a haunting, life-saving command: Don’t make a sound.

As people close to her start to die horrible deaths, Kara, who is slowly and surely unraveling, believes she is the killer’s ultimate target.
 
Kara survived once. But will she survive again? How many times can she be the girl who survived?

Pros: It started off good, and it kept me interested enough to read it to its end.

Cons:  It had some messy dialogue where characters repeated themselves. At least twice, the protagonist jumped to conclusions making me reread the paragraph but still not understand how she got there. The author waited too long to introduce some important characters, not offering enough clues to allow the reader to solve the mystery. In the end, things were flat-out explained, which turned out to be good because, as a reader, I would still have been wondering what the heck really happened.

Conclusion: There are better books out there to read on a rainy night