Book Review | The Lost and the Found by Cat Clarke

Title: The Lost and the Found

Author: Cat Clarke

Series or standalone: Standalone

Genre: Young Adult Contemporary/Mystery

Publication Date: 2nd July 2015

Format: ARC

Source: Publisher (Quercus)
My Rating: 4/5 stars

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LOST. 
When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger sister. Faith’s childhood was dominated by Laurel’s disappearance – from her parents’ broken marriage and the constant media attention to dealing with so-called friends who only ever wanted to talk about her sister. 
FOUND.
Thirteen years later, a young woman is found in the garden of the Logans’ old house, disorientated and clutching the teddy bear Laurel was last seen with. Laurel is home at last, safe and sound. Faith always dreamed of getting her sister back, without ever truly believing it would happen. But a disturbing series of events leaves Faith increasingly isolated and paranoid, and before long she begins to wonder if everything that’s lost can be found again…

What a rollercoaster! I didn't go into this book with many expectations so I was extremely surprised to come out of the reading experience gushing about how good this book was. I'll start of by saying that my biggest fear is being kidnapped so I probably shouldn't read books like this, but for some reason I find them so fascinating. I loved that this book followed what happens after Laurel is found and how she and her family copes with the adjustment and also with the police trying to track down the man who took her. It was so interesting to see how Laurel coped with being put back into the real world.
At about the half way mark, I honestly couldn't stop flipping those pages because I just HAD to know what happened. The mystery aspect was fantastic and gripping and was super intriguing the whole way through. I did guess the twist at the end though which was a bit disappointing, but I love how the author did it (if you've read it, you'll know what I mean). 
The thing that stopped me from giving this a full 5 stars was that I really wanted an epilogue. LIKE, JUST A COUPLE MORE PAGES PLEASEEEEE THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 
I loved the rawness of the emotions from the family members and all in all I just feel like this book was really well done. I highly recommend it!