While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation. But the closer she comes to identifying the abductor, the nearer she gets to the troubling truth about another missing child: her best friend, Lizzy, who vanished years before.
From the author of the acclaimed Promise Not to Tell comes a chilling and mesmerizing tale of shattered innocence, guilt, and ultimate redemption.
If You Didnt Think Alice in Wonderland Could Get Creepier...
Alice in Wonderland was a book that I enjoyed in my childhood, but that somehow creeped me out. There is something very unnatural about someone named the Mad Hatter, who, by the way, will be played by Johnny Depp in an upcoming version (run to your local theater and see Public Enemies). While some kids (and adults) just fell into this world with no problem, the analytical side of me did not really want to read about a cat who smiled all the time and about two creatures named Tweedledum and Tweedledee. McMahon masterfully takes this strange world that Carroll created and inserts it into Island of the Lost Girls. It begins with Rhonda watching, unbelievably, as a six-foot tall person dressed as a rabbit kidnaps a young child. Feeling guilty about doing nothing, she helps the investigation. McMahon reminds me of Picoult; however, instead of telling the story from different viewpoints, she tells it from different time periods. The book chillingly weaves together the story of the present with the past....Rhondas best friend, Lizzy, vanished years ago when they were kids. It will leave you breathless as you try to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Dont plan on reading this on vacation, as you will not want to do anything else but read! MY RATING - 5 To read more book reviews and to see my rating scale, please visit my website at [...].
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