The Stolen Sisters by Louise Jensen

​     Maybe I’m getting tired of all these ladiiesfirst thrillers. Or maybe this one just didn’t have the proverbial it quality. To be fair, I didn’t expect much and might not have even selected it had it not been for one of the characters having OCD. That should have made it interesting. For me, anyway. And it did, to an extent, but a disorder can only go so far. Even though, the author tries to get more mileage out of glitchy brain matters by throwing in another, much more exotic  mental disorder on top of things.
    But takes those away and what you get is a very typical thriller, although  the author busies it up so much with numerous split narratives and timelines, it might take a while to notice. It’s the Gilmore Girls approach,  talk mile a minute and someone might not notice you don’t have that much to say. Busy, busy, busy. Three sisters and side players to boot. You’d think just the sisters would be enough. They are, after all, the main attraction.
   The Stolen Girls as the press had dubbed them. The Sinclair sisters. 20 years ago the 8 year old twins Leah and Marie and their older halfsib Carly were taken from their backyard. Stolen. The ordeal was notably brief and overall, not as terrible as it might have been, but terribly traumatic all the same.  It all but annihilated the Sinclair family, but the sisters stayed close.
    Now, 20 years later, the man responsible is getting out of prison and it pours gasoline on  their already difficult personal situations. Carly’’s  something of a shut in who barely gets by, Marie’s a junkie in debt and Leah’s OCD is spiraling up and pushing her dearly beloved into the arms of another woman. They can all use the mad money offered to them to tell their story once more for the special anniversary.  And they all have reasons not to.
    And then mysterious notes begin to arrive and strange things begin to occur and suddenly trusting becomes far from given, even among the family.
     So who if anyone is after the Sinclair sisters and what can they do? Read and find out. Or don’t. There’s nothing new here and the narrative is ridiculously convoluted, it jumps around like its been told the linear narrative is lava. Reads quickly enough and it is reasonably entertaining, just nothing special.
    The OCD is actually represented well and is the other mystery disorder, the rest is just kinda there. If you like stories about severely f*cked up families, this might work for you. Thanks Netgalley.