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    The Forgotten Girl: A Thriller
    The Forgotten Girl: A Thriller
    The Forgotten Girl: A Thriller
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    The Forgotten Girl: A Thriller

    Written by Rio Youers

    Narrated by Kevin T. Collins

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    A dark mystery unfolds in Rio Youers's riveting thriller, The Forgotten Girl.

    Harvey Anderson is a twenty-six-year-old street performer from New Jersey. He enjoys his peaceful life, but everything turns upside down when he is abducted and beaten by a group of nondescript thugs. Working for a sinister man known as “the spider,” these goons have spent nine years searching for Harvey’s girlfriend, Sally Starling. Now they think they know where she lives. And whom she loves.

    There’s only one problem: Sally is gone and Harvey has no memory of her. Which makes no sense to him, until the spider explains that Sally has the unique ability to selectively erase a person’s memories?an ability she has used to delete herself from Harvey’s mind.

    But emotion runs deeper than memory, and Harvey realizes he still feels something for Sally. And so?with the spider threatening?he goes looking for a girl he loves but can’t remember...and encounters a danger that reaches beyond anything he could ever imagine.

    Political corruption and manipulation. A serial killer’s dark secrets. An appetite for absolute, terrible power. For Harvey Anderson, finding the forgotten girl comes at quite a cost.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 13, 2017
    ISBN9781543618648
    Author

    Rio Youers

    Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award–nominated author of Lola on Fire and No Second Chances. His 2017 thriller, The Forgotten Girl, was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He is the writer of Sleeping Beauties, a comic book series based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King and Owen King. Rio lives in Ontario, Canada, with his wife and their two children.

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    • 4/5
      Youers is becoming a favourite of mine. Every book is a guaranteed solid read. I found, through the reading of this, that I really enjoyed three things that often don't snug together very well.

      The first is, the sort of SF/horror premise of someone who can reach into your head and yank your memories from you. Then, through the course of the novel, different people with different abilities begin to show up. While there's times Youers seems to be on rather shaky ground trying to keep it real, he mostly succeeds, and in the end, makes it work.

      The second is the action pieces. The author absolutely does not shy away from brutality, and it ramps up the stakes exponentially. As well, the car chases and other action sequences are stellar. And not just more of the same old same old.

      Finally—and this is where he really shines—Youers writes about relationships like no one else I've ever read. He has an absolute knack for making his characters live and breathe on the page in just a couple of paragraphs, and you immediately fall in love with the ones you're supposed to. But it's detailing those little moments where nothing much happens, but they create a memory that lasts a lifetime...he writes them, the reader experiences them, and they're as real as real can be. It's a beautiful thing to behold.

      But, of course, none of this would be worth much if he also wasn't masterful enough to blend all of this into an engaging story that first hooks you, then drags you along until the final page.

      And the author does that too.

      Well worth the read.
    • 4/5
      I'm not a coward. A case of mistaken identity....Salt of the earth, quinoa eating, busker, Harvey is thrown into a world he never would have imagined. Gigantic thugs, mind manipulations, and a vague memory of the girl in the blue dress...Harvey has his eyes opened to so many different aspects of his life as he fights to regain the love that was stolen from him. @stmartinspress @rioyouers @macmillanRio Youers has an amazing suspenseful, riveting novel about two main characters, Harvey and Sally/Mirranda.