3.5 stars
The expat community living in Boca del Toro, Panama is an interesting and independent lot. Many are escaping something, whether it is crime, family or money issues, in their home countries and move to Panama to reinvent themselves. Such is the case with William Dothan Holbert, known to Panamanians as Wild Bill Cortez. He and his wife came to Panama through other central American countries and immediately became know as an egregious storyteller and drinker who immediately starts buying properties with money of unknown provenance. When the former property owners mysteriously disappear, it is at first considered par for the course in this area of the world. However, Wild Bill takes it too far and the other expats soon realize they have a serial killer in their midst. An interesting examination of expat life and psychopathic, this sometimes veers off into irrelevant history of Panama that, while interesting, is not very pertinent to an expat community that isolates itself from most of Panama. I found myself frustrated with the many tangents while extremely absorbed by the main story. Overall, this is an interesting tale of how a serial killer can thrive in a remote and self sufficient community. I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Never Missing, Never Found by Amanda Panitch
3.5 stars
Scarlett is a teenager who spent much of her childhood missing from her family, living with an abusive and strict kidnaper. Now that she has been returned to her family, she deals with the fact that she belongs to a small fraternity of the missing and as she begins her job in an amusement park where a girl has recently gone missing, she has to deal with her fears. Throughout most of this book, I thought it was just okay and found a lot of the situations and relationships unbelievable, but the author does pull something that I really did not see coming that actually explained much of the first part of the book. Some things are still not explained adequately, and are maybe a little too convenient but I really enjoyed with interesting young adult mystery. I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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