Vanished

What was she thinking with this ending?

I bought this book in a Barnes & Noble store with a gift card. When I came home & read the reviews I figured it would be awful. But it¿s not. Sarah Mason is a county prosecutor. Seven years ago her 5 year old daughter, Lexie, was kidnapped. When all else failed, Sarah turned to PI Jake Hogan to help in the search. Over the years they became best friends but at some time Jake realized he wanted more although Sarah was oblivious. Sarah allows herself no pleasures, barely eating or sleeping and throws all into her job. Her house is barely furnished. She doesn¿t feel she should have any happiness as she didn¿t know what Lexie had suffered. Sarah thinks she should be punished for Lexie¿s kidnapping because she should have been able to do something. Now she¿s a victim of a violent crime and begins receiving phone calls, etc. supposedly from or involving Lexie. Jake was an alpha male but not obnoxious about it, and was a softie at heart. OK, I have to admit Sarah didn¿t sound real attractive considering she was 5¿4¿ and 103 lbs, that¿s borderline skeletal. I¿m not quite 5¿1¿ and weigh 106. Also Jake¿s affairs with ever younger blond bimbos smacked of a mid life crisis. His current was 25 to his 39. A couple more years and she would have literally been young enough to be his daughter! Ick! But his devotion to, and love for, Sarah was touching and he did all he could do to protect and care for her. And yes Lexie was mentioned a lot but the story revolved around her kidnapping so that was understandable. However, the ending was absolutely ridiculous and unbelievable. It was as if the writer wanted to wrap everything up in a pretty bow at the end instead of following the rhythm of the rest of the book. This nearly ruined the whole book for me! If Chapter 25 would have been left out it would have been a five.

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Must read

Karen Robards writes a good story that keeps a reader turning the page and takes them through the character's reasoning of why they do what they do! Good book!

Great book

Wow this was a great book i love her work i am 11 and this is my first of her books great way to get started though. 5year old lexie was kidnapped when she went down the street to get some b-day cake and so 7 years later sara turns to her best friend jake hogan a FBI agent so then when sara went into the pik-quik to get some dog food she got involved in a violant shooting and 2 weeks after that she starts getting phone calls from lexie but is it really lexie????????????????? YOU WILL HAVE TO READ AND FIND OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!! But do u have the guts to read this well ploted horrer/mistery story???????? (Sorry for the bad spelling i am only 11)

roller coaster of emotions!

Once again, Karen Robards hits it on the head! A book full of emotions ... definitely reccomend

Not one of her best

The plot was ok. I understand what was being said and how it is suppose to be read, but I think the lives of the characters were kind of out there. The ending is suppose to be a happy one, but just kind of falls short. It drops the love story and then when we continue the other it just ends.

On the fence

This was my first Robards book. Though I did enjoy the story and as a mother I felt Sarah's pain this book was way too wordy...the story could've been told just as effectively in about 50 fewer pages. The story itself brings forth a lot of emotions and did make me cry. However, when Lexie's fate was revealed I thought I was going to vomit. I just couldn't believe that the writer went "there" even though she didn't give details about it, it doesn't take a genius to put 2 and 2 together.

Loved this book!

This was an excellent read, I always like how Karen Robards writes suspensful books but still manages to have a love story with some smutty scenes in them. This book you could definetly escape in and I read it in like two days! It kind of kreeped me out when the toys that were packed away from her missing daughter came out and turned on by themselves.....chills, love it!

A real page turner!!!!

I thought this book was excellent. The moment I started it I couldn't put it down. Although the end was a little predictable I still loved it! It did have a lot of love seens in it, if you know what I mean. I have read a few by this author and if you love a good mystery with some steamy stuff mixed in you'll love Karen Robards.

okay read

i thought it was a good book.it could have been a great book but the ending was disappointing.not the outcome ,but the book had lots of details thoughout.then the end was very abrupt.its almost like it missed a chapter.

A reviewer

I have read all Karen Robards books, I look forward to them, but this one fell way below her usual standard.

This is a Good Reading

This book was good. It was my first Karen Robards book, but the book was a page turner. Those who were left 'in the loop' might want to re-read the book to better understand what the scenes were. it happens sometimes, and some people just need to go back and re-evaluate what portion of the scene needs more attention than the other.

A reviewer

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I was a little disappointed in the ending. I wanted to know more about what happen once everything was out in the open. I really hope that the characters in this book appear again in another book so that we can see what happens.

BIG BIG DISAPPOINTMENT

I usually love Karen Robards books but this one was really lousy.. In addition to the story being very fragmented and choppy, the ending left me with so many questions that I was just so frustrated. The reason I even gave it one star was becasue it was Karen Robards. Nowhere near up to the standards of a prolific and long time author as K.R.

A great read

Karen Robards has written another pulse pounding thriller in Vanished. ________________________________ District Attorney Sarah Mason barely escapes death in a convenience store hold up. Her closest friend PI Jake Hogan is willing to watch over Sarah as she recovers. ________________________________ Strange things start to happen the most unsettling is a call from Sarah¿s missing child. Lexie was taken over seven years ago and Sarah still hasn¿t gotten over it. _________________________________ Someone wants to traumatize Sarah and Jake is not willing to let anything happen to her. As they dig deeper into the past it is somehow connected to the present. Jake and Sarah¿s friendship takes a deeper turn. Can Jake make Sarah believe in what they have? Will Sarah let go of the past and start to live again? _______________________ Vanished will have you on the edge of your seat from page one. It¿s a non-stop roller coaster ride. Vanished is also sweet, tender and funny. You couldn¿t ask for a better read.

not one of her best

I felt that the book had a lot of potential in teh beginning but afterwards it became very dry, the story would not come together for me, i felt that parts were missing. Definetly not one of Ms. Robbard's best

A Disppointed Fan

I've read all of Karen Robards books and was anxiously awaiting her latest. I finished it last night and was dumbfounded. This didn't compare with any of her other books. Felt like she had a good start but got weak in the middle and absolutely floundered at the end. As the previous comments noted there was a lack of character development. Interesting subplots were started but no resolution was even hinted at. I hope this is just a blip as her others have been great.

First time reader and....

I was sorely disappointed. I spent a good hour in the bookstore trying to find a new author that I'd never read before and I even read the first few passages of this book and I thought that it would be perfect... I found myself extremely frustrated with this book. It felt like she spent pages upon pages saying the same thing over and over again... How many ways can you describe a mans body? I actually found myself skpping pages at a time because I just couldn't bare it. It also turned me off to see many typo's... Not expected of a New York Times Bestseller. I am grappling with the idea of even trying any of her other books, but hearing that this was not typical of this author, perhaps I'll give her another try.

Had so much potential....

I'm usually a huge fan of hers and after reading the online summary was sure this one would be fantastic. However, I was disappointed with the lack of direction of the book and the lack of developement of the characters. It almost seemed if three different stories were running without pulling them all together. I agree with the previous poster that the author seemed to have some trouble with this one.

????

I picked this book up without question, because simply I have always read all of Ms. Robards novels. However, after reading the whole thing, I don't know what she was thinking. It seemed sloppy and just thrown together at times as if she had a very hard time writing this one. The leading female wasn't so bad and it does seem like it could have gone somewhere, but it didn't.