The purpose of Thrifty Thursday is to read a book which was free (at some point).
Kindle freebie on June 1, 2019 (currently $0.99 at Amazon and $4.99 at Barnes & Noble as of writing this post)
Overall rating 3.97 with 2,950 ratings and 357 reviews
Lost and Found by Amy Shojai Series: September Day #1
on February 1, 2017
Genres: Mystery
Pages: 274
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased
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Animal behaviorist September Day protects her broken heart by keeping everyone at arm’s length. Still distraught over her husband’s death in the line of duty, she heads back to her Texas home to launch a dog-training business. But her grief takes a back seat when her autistic nephew goes missing in a freak blizzard.
Partnering with the boy’s support pup Shadow, September uncovers a shocking conspiracy hiding a deadly “miracle drug.” Hounded by vengeful enemies, human and dog must learn to work together and sniff out the source of corruption before more vulnerable kids die.
I always love a K9 story. The start of Lost and Found was very confusing. Our main character, September, seems disorganized and strange. Her family is stranger. We have her point of view, and Shadow the German Shepard pup, and Elaine who has an autistic daughter.
September has just moved back to town. Her sister April calls and s frantic because her autistic son Steven is missing. She rushes over to try to help, but one of his woman therapists says she and April will look for Steven, she needs to find a flash drive they are missing. September though, goes to hunt for Steven instead.
This is just a mess and everywhere September goes, someone else dies. She is avoiding the police because she needs to look for Steven. The whole way the bad guys are acting is crazy. The depiction of autistic children is simplistic and not very realistic. It mostly relies on a few cliche things.
When September stops chasing around and stops to think and plan, it actually gets better. She is really good with training Shadow and Shadow adores her. I don’t like the way she treated Shadow when she found him. She was certainly under stress but so was Shadow.
There’s a series but I’m not sure about it. I’ll enjoy the dog training and her new friendship with a policeman but I’m not interested in seeing any of her family again.
I read all types of books but my favorites are urban fantasy and romantic suspense.I like some romance and some action / adventure / mystery in everything.I like sex in my books but please, only between TWO people.Intimate conversation is equally important to the sex in a book.It lets me see the characters.The other thing I enjoy is humor.
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Hmm, some troubling issues, but also some decent bits, too. Guess the freebie did its job so you could try it out and see if the series was worth pursuing.
yes except I’m still not sure if I’m continuing. It did improve as it went along.
It does sound a little chaotic. Well, at least you enjoyed it somewhat and it was free!
yes I am always glad when I can try one that looks promising for free.
Hm. It’s often a worthy impulse to include a neurodivergent character, but unless the author really knows what they’re doing – it can quickly devolve into something a lot less worthy… Thank you for an enlightening review – I don’t think I’m tempted by this one:).
Thank you. I’m still on the fence about whether I am continuing.