Gripping! ( )

Karin Slaughter is a wonderful author. She not only writes well; she also puts together a great story--always, I thought. Maybe this time is an exception, though.

GIRL, FORGOTTEN is a continuation of Andrea's story from PIECES OF HER. She's more mature now and a US Marshal in a small town outside Baltimore. She and her partner are assigned to "babysit" a judge there who has received death threats.

Also, this is the town where Andrea's father, the psychopath in PIECES OF HER, grew up. Although she and her mother now feel safe knowing that he is in prison, Andrea wants to be sure he stays there.

The judge Andrea has been assigned to guard is the mother of a teenager who was murdered back in the 1980s. Andrea has assigned herself the job of determining whether the murderer was her father. That would keep him in jail for life.

Slaughter alternates chapters between the teenager in the 1980s and Andrea in present day. The problem is with the experiences of the pregnant and unmarried teenager. If you were born before 1980 and especially if you were the same age as this teenager during the 1980s, her experiences will not ring true. They are unrealistic. The 1980s are described as backward, as if they are the 1930s. I knew pregnant teenagers back in the 1970s who were not ostracized by friends and family. They were not thrown out of their public school. Their doctors acted professionally. Their parents, though angry and upset, did not find it necessary to keep them as prisoners in their homes.

The teenager's mother, the judge, had been appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan. She was afraid her daughter's pregnancy would ruin her career. That is especially unrealistic, considering all the trouble Reagan had with his own kids.

All this and more about these 1980s chapters irritated me so much that I had a hard time enjoying Andrea's chapters. I'm not even looking forward to the next book in this series, although I will read it if Slaughter writes it. I won't drop her as a favorite author for this one mistake. ( )

It is almost 4 years to the day that I read and reviewed ‘Pieces of Her’ and now 4 years on I have just finished the follow up book ‘Girl, forgotten’ where we meet Andy, or rather Andrea as she likes to be called now.
Having moved on from the past as much as she can, she is now a US Marshal.

Her first assignment straight from the academy should be an easy and somewhat boring, but nothing is ever as simple as that!
Her first job as a US Marshal is to provide protection to a high power judge who has been receiving death threats, however at the same time she is tasked with finally uncovering the perpetrator of a murder that happened in the same time years before.

As she digs deeper into the murder, is it possible that this might hit to close to home for her?
Was it her now incarcerated father that murdered one of the clique?

As always with a Karin Slaughter novel you just know that you are in for a treat!

This book is a carry on from the book Pieces of Her, but by no means that doesn’t mean you can’t just jump straight into this one without having read the previous one, or watched the Netflix series. However I would recommend both reading and watching it, the book is better than the tv series but you find that a lot with adaptations, but having said that, I binge watched the entire show in one sitting!

Not as fast paced as some of her other books but this book drags you deep inside Andrea’s life and the investigations and holds you there from start to finish.

And that ending! Omg, I truly hope there will be a next one. It definitely leaves you wanting more!

Girl, Forgotten will be published on 23 June 2022 and is available to pre order now.

Thank you to the author, Karin Slaughter, the publishers, Harper Collins UK as well as NetGalley for my drc of this book in exchange for an honest and independent review. ( )

It is almost 4 years to the day that I read and reviewed ‘Pieces of Her’ and now 4 years on I have just finished the follow up book ‘Girl, forgotten’ where we meet Andy, or rather Andrea as she likes to be called now.
Having moved on from the past as much as she can, she is now a US Marshal.

Her first assignment straight from the academy should be an easy and somewhat boring, but nothing is ever as simple as that!
Her first job as a US Marshal is to provide protection to a high power judge who has been receiving death threats, however at the same time she is tasked with finally uncovering the perpetrator of a murder that happened in the same time years before.

As she digs deeper into the murder, is it possible that this might hit to close to home for her?
Was it her now incarcerated father that murdered one of the clique?

As always with a Karin Slaughter novel you just know that you are in for a treat!

This book is a carry on from the book Pieces of Her, but by no means that doesn’t mean you can’t just jump straight into this one without having read the previous one, or watched the Netflix series. However I would recommend both reading and watching it, the book is better than the tv series but you find that a lot with adaptations, but having said that, I binge watched the entire show in one sitting!

Not as fast paced as some of her other books but this book drags you deep inside Andrea’s life and the investigations and holds you there from start to finish.

And that ending! Omg, I truly hope there will be a next one. It definitely leaves you wanting more!

Girl, Forgotten will be published on 23 June 2022 and is available to pre order now ( )

Didn’t really hold my attention . ( )