When Harper Collins launches a new mystery novel, The reader already knows that he will face a dark, sinister and twisted reading. ‘Lost Day’ (Harper Collins, 2024), is no exception to that norm.
Stiff Sullivan writes a novel whose plot hooks from the first page and that thanks to a agile and dynamic prose, It can be read for all types of reader.
San Amaro has learned to live with his dead, but Diego no. Three years after losing his sister and friends, he is still obsessed with what happened that night. On the anniversary of the disappearances, a macabre game awakens wounds from the past And he reveals that the truth was always closer to what he imagined.
The Spanish writer has created a world with some characters as sinister as human And from Diego’s hand on the one hand, and Inspector Gallardo on the other, the reader will jump between both points of view on the same case that has the author in suspense.
A narrative style that will make you fly through the pages
The first thing that came to mind when immersing ourselves in its reading for just a few minutes, was ‘the assistant’ by Freida McFadden. But not because of the story itself (they have nothing to do), but For that style of first person narration, with short, sharp and grain phrases; For that gesture that we all do when we look down to see how many pages we have read in that time interval and discover, with astonishment, that we have been read about 70 pages read in just half an hour or forty minutes.
‘Lost Day’ is a work in which the story progresses with new turns and new surprises.
Although there is some but … some of the dialogues of the characters feel forced and somewhat puerile and, sometimes, the discovery of the different mysteries can occur by coincidences or somewhat unlikely appearances. That the protagonists are, above all, teenagers, give something of “youth” touch to this novel that, being a thriller, makes the reader be a spotted ground, feeling some plots with somewhat predictable resolutions.
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Is it worth reading ‘Lost Day’?
It is a perfect novel for all those avid readers of a book Easy, fast and entertaining to read. So yes, it is definitely worth it.
