First of all, I am so behind on my reviews & I’m about to flood the page in order to catch up. Apologies.
Tim Johnston’s Descent was pretty good, but not as good as I expected. I feel like it dragged on a bit, and I wish that Caitlin had been given more of the story.
“Long after everyone else has given up and gone home and gotten on with their lives, he would keep on believing because, without evidence, you could never kill his belief.”
Celebrating their athletic daughter Caitlin’s acceptance into college, the Courtland family has rented a cabin in the Rocky Mountains. Early one morning, 18 year old Caitlin and her 15 year old brother Sean go up into the mountains — Caitlin on foot, Sean on his bicycle. Sean gets hit by a car, and Caitlin agrees to go with the driver to go get help. Caitlin doesn’t return, and by the time someone finds Sean, they realize something terrible has happened.
This book was much more about the aftermath in a family with a missing daughter than the missing daughter herself. We get a few frustrating glimpses into what Caitlin is enduring, but mostly we follow Sean and his father around in the years after Caitlin disappears, as they angrily make their way through life. It’s a decent story, but not quite the thriller I expected.
