Book Review: Favorite by Karen McQuestion

Title: Favorite
Author: Karen McQuestion
Details: Paperback, 170 pgs.
Published: April 1st, 2011 by Amazon Encore (first published 2009)

isbn: 1935597256 (ISBN13: 9781935597254)

Reading Level: Young Adult

Source: Publisher

 

 Angie Favorite was just eleven years old when her mother disappeared, leaving Angie and her brother Jason to be raised by their grandmother while their rock-star father hit the road with his band. Since that day, Angie has gone through the motions of everyday life. She thinks she has everyone fooled — until the summer morning when she’s abducted from a mall parking lot. She narrowly escapes and her attacker, Scott Bittner, is arrested, but the weirdness has just begun. When Angie receives a letter from Scott’s mother, entreating her to meet so that she can apologize for her son’s actions, the girl reluctantly agrees. But it is soon obvious that Scott’s attack wasn’t random at all and that there is more to the strange Mrs. Bittner than meets the eye. In fact, she may hold the key to Angie’s mother’s disappearance. Part thriller, part coming-of-age tale, Favorite is an engrossing young-adult novel from a captivating author.

 I accepted this book for review because of the description.  It sounded completely different and very mysterious.  And it was!  I enjoyed it and never felt like I was bored with it.  At times I thought I should be bored, but I wasn't.  

I liked Angie pretty well.  There were things that bugged me and she wasn't terribly like-able in the beginning, but she grew on me.  I thought the other characters were pretty good as well, but some of the side characters were more interesting then the main characters.  

Although I figured out the mystery before it was revealed I never knew for sure.  It was a hunch but I wasn't exactly sure how it would all play out.  So I didn't feel any dissatisfaction from it.  And I thought it took some strange turns but things stayed quite interesting.

This book is pretty short and I felt it was worth my time of reading it.  I even found myself thinking out it hours later, so that shows that it did stick with me.  Although I don't think it's anything amazing,  I did like it and I thought Karen McQuestion's writing style wasn't too bad.  I had read some reviews and I'm thinking that maybe the book has gone through some editing since the first publication because I didn't notice any of the things that people were being negative about.  

If the description sounds good, I say give it a try!

 You can find Karen McQuestion at her:

Website 

Purchase:

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Disclosure:  I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher in return for an honest review.  All opinions expressed are my own and I was not paid or influenced in any way.