I loved this book! The full review will be posted soon at kaitgoodwin.com/books! Thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity to connect books to their readers!

As I mentioned in a recent review on another book set in the wild, I love books set in the wild (that other one was <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35238072-not-if-i-save-you-first">Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter</a>). This one was good though it had a lot of disturbing flashbacks and not a lot of exposition or resolution on them. I mean, it did try to tie up a large number of threads and backstory over the course of the book - possibly too many as almost every single character had some buried secrets and baggage. There were kind of maybe too many characters? I mean, I loved Free but was she really necessary? Also Mac honestly. Eh, no he had some key pivotal moments, I guess.

The trained search and rescue dogs were great.

Multiple triggers in this for child abuse primarily but also death of beloved pets, spousal abuse, probably other things I'm blanking on now.

This book was received as an ARC from Disney Book Group in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

Our readers are fans of Jennifer Lynn Barnes books because of her writing style to be always exciting with edge of your seat action and they will not be disappointed with The Lovely and the Lost because the book brought that and then some. The characters and their motives were so enticing that you wanted to follow along with Kira and find out if she will ever escape the demons that haunt her past and then the story of Cady and the relationship she has with her father just added more flavor to the story. I could not stop reading this book and I know our readers will not want to stop either.

This will definitely be considered for our YFiction collection at the library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.