“Two Little Girls in Blue”: a perfect example of suspense and hope
The story is worrisome up to a point, but it has a very happy ending
Very rarely do I get the chance to read a novel like this one and am I glad that I finally found it. The author, as she has done some many times before, shows us that she is the best in the business.
Two three-year-old girls are kidnapped. The kidnappers’ ask for a huge ramson, which, at the end they get it. Nothing should really go wrong at this point, but some has to give for the story to move along: one of the kidnapers, a bitter old lady who suffers from a severe mental disorder and can’t have children of her own, decides to keep one of the girls and things get interested. The kidnappers make one mistake after another — as most humans would do under certain circumstances — which brings them to exposure. Besides, the surprise element in this story is the fact that the girls can communicate with each other, even when they’re miles apart from one another.
This is one of those stories where the reader knows what’s going to happen — we even know, up to a point, who’s done it — but the story isn’t about why, or how the crime happened, what the writer chooses to do is to show us with words — rather sharp and carefully selected words — how things unfold. It is a treat for us, the readers.
The criticism of the novel is that, given the subject matter, there isn’t much suspense or rather, that the novel isn’t as mortifying as it should be. However, in the author’s defense, the novel is beautifully written, it is short, sharp, up to the point and a treat to read.
Besides, as the author herself has said before, there should always be an element hope in every story. The book is one hundred percent recommended.
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