The Girl Who Lived – Book Review

Title: The Girl Who Lived

Author: Christopher Greyson

Number of Pages: 296 pages

Publisher: Greyson Media Associates

Publication Date: November 2, 2017

Purchase: Thriftbooks//Amazon//Book Depository

My Rating: 3/5 stars

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived.

No one believes her story.
The police think she’s crazy.
Her therapist thinks she’s suicidal.
Everyone else thinks she’s a dangerous drunk.
They’re all right—but did she see the killer?

As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on earth she wants to be—her hometown where the slayings took place. Wracked by the lingering echoes of survivor’s guilt, Faith spirals into a black hole of alcoholism and wanton self-destruction. Finding no solace at the bottom of a bottle, Faith decides to track down her sister’s killer—and then discovers that she’s the one being hunted.

How can one woman uncover the truth when everyone’s a suspect—including herself?

My Thoughts:

This was one of the books that I read while driving back from Atlanta and I was interested in the first five or six chapters than I lost interest. I stopped caring what was happening to Faith and got more invested in the side characters.

The writing was decent but it felt so slow and repetitive in spots and that got really annoying. I feel like I have read so many other books with this idea that was so much better than this. Also, parts of the plot didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, it felt like there was pieces missing that would have made more sense or they edited parts of it out and didn’t change what they left in.

I was interested in Faith when she was forced introduced and the chapters that followed but I quickly loss interest because I don’t like characters that blame others for all of their problems, I mean, that’s valid in this one but she doesn’t want to help herself. She’s kind of awful to everyone who is trying to help her because she’s more of a “lone wolf.”

I was more invested in the side characters like Tommy and the members of the support groups that she went to. I wanted to know their backstories and how they got to where they were. I wanted to know how these incidents changed and shaped their lives. I would 100% read books written about them but preferably under a different author.

That ‘shocking’ twist at the end didn’t surprise me at all. I saw it coming after the third interaction with that character. It made sense but that really isn’t a way that you should solve your problems.

This wasn’t my cup of tea but it might be someone else’s and I could see myself recommending this to a few friends of mine.

Also, I’m just really curious, do you usually have background noise when writing posts? I usually have a movie or a show on while typing.

Have you read this? If so, what were your thoughts?

What are you currently reading? Any recommendations?