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I was happy to review The Snow Girl by Javier Castillo before watching any adaptations. If you are looking for a missing persons case thriller, you’ll want to grab the Snow Girl.

The book that inspired the Netflix series.

With over a million copies sold, this is the perfect thriller that changes the rules of the genre.

The most famous parade on the planet. A missing three-year-old girl. Where is Kiera Templeton?

"Javier Castillo is undoubtedly the new phenomenon of European literature."
Joël Dicker

New York, 1998, Thanksgiving parade. Kiera Templeton vanishes among the crowd. After a frantic search all over town, someone finds a few tufts of hair next to the little girl's clothing. In 2003, the day Kiera would have turned eight, her parents, Aaron and Grace Templeton, receive a strange package at home, a VHS tape showing one minute of Keira playing in an unfamiliar room.

Bestseller author Javier Castillo of El día que se perdió la cordura, El día que se perdió el amor, Todo lo que sucedió con Miranda Huff, and The Soul Game puts our sanity in check once again with The Snow Girl, a dark voyage to the depths of Miren Triggs, a journalism student who begins a parallel investigation and learns her life, as much as Keira's, is full of uncertainties.

The fear of a child getting lost in the sizeable crowd at the Macy’s Parade was very real because of my east coast upbringing. I’ve witnessed firsthand the crowds at this parade. In The Snow Child, this is exactly what happens to the Templetons. Aaron and Grace Templeton took their 3-year-old daughter Kiera to the parade for the first time when every parent’s worst nightmare happened. Little Kiera disappeared without a trace. The tale that unfolds follows the parents, detective assigned to the case and an eager young reporter who suffers from her own nightmares.

The story was told mainly from Miren Triggs’s perspective. We also get insight from Aaron, the detective, and Kiera’s acquaintances. We are witness to how Kiera’s disappears affects their lives and their relentless search for answers.

The story also focuses on Miren, whom we meet as a student journalist and witness how one horrible evening affected her. When she gets a hold of the Kiera story, she is determined to find out what happened. The case goes cold until five years later when a VHS tape is delivered to the Templeton’s showing a video of Kiera, now eight years old.

Some felt the story dragged, but based on the years involved and character development, particularly that of Miren, I was pulled in. This is the first novel in the Miren Triggs series which makes sense and I think it will do well on Netflix.

René Ruiz and Rachel Jacobs did a fantastic job of giving voice to these characters and capturing the emotions and tone of the story.

*triggers- rape, kidnapping, violence.

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About Javier Castillo

Javier Castillo is an author and business consultant. His first novel, "El día que se perdió la cordura", has sold more than 30.000 copies and has been ranked in Amazon TOP 100 for more than 450 days. Recenly "SUMA de LETRAS", a publishing house part of Penguin Random House has bought the rights to distribute the book worldwide in Spanish. Javier Castillo's writing is potent, rhythmic and focused on the feelings. Prepare your mind to be highjacked by his words and to fall in love with his characters. He dominates time and location jumps with mastery, leaving you hanging of an eternal cliff.

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About Rachel Jacobs

Rachel L. Jacobs, an AudioFile Earphones and Parent's Choice Award–winning narrator, narrates books full-time. She has years of experience as a theater and musical theater actress, touring the West Coast (of the US) and China. She received a BA from Oberlin College's Theater Program and did intensive study with the American Conservatory Theatre, the National Theater Institute, and Shakespeare and Company. Versatile and emotive, Rachel breathes life into each of the characters and stories she reads.

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About Rene Ruiz

René Ruiz is an accomplished voice actor, stage director, and narrator originally from Austin, Texas. He created, directed, and performed with the off-Broadway a cappella theater show Toxic Audio, which won a New York Drama Desk Award. He is an Audie nominee and an Earphones Award winner.

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About Kimberly

Kimberly is a coffee loving book addict who reads and listens to fictional stories in all genres. Whovian, Ravenclaw, Howler and proud Nonna. She owns and manages Caffeinated PR. The coffee is always on and she is ready to chat. BlueSky | Facebook | Instagram

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