I found that this book, by Helen Grant, was quite slow to get started, although the first line was very funny:

‘My life might have been so different had I not been known as the girl whose grandma had exploded.’

I found this a very good line to start off with.

What I don’t like about the novel is that the chapters are only a few pages long and don’t go into much detail. Another thing that I don’t like is that some of the words are in German: it may have a German dictionary at the back, but it is quite confusing. If you want to write a novel, write it in either one language or the other, don’t go between two, because if people don’t know there is a dictionary at the back then they won’t know what the words mean.  The word komisch means 'funny'.

Then her arm dropped to the side of her, she turned and hurried back up the Marktstrasse, without bothering to say goodbye. Stefan and I exchanged glances. This was odd behaviour in an adult.

'Komisch,' observed Stefan.

'Yes I agree.'

I like how Grant tries to incorporate her life into her books, as her son went missing for an hour and a half, and her friend’s son went missing at Disneyworld and was found by the car. I like how she has incorporated her life into the books, as a girl goes missing at a carnival and another goes missing, out of nowhere, and Pia is the last to see her alive. Then all of a sudden another girl goes missing, and becomes a mystery.

I think that the novel should be given to children over the age of thirteen. This never really gripped me, I thought at the start it would be good, but now having read this book, I found it very hard to get in to, so I would rate it 5/10.