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From New York Times bestseller Richard Chizmar, author of Gwendy's Button Box (with Stephen King) and The Long Way Home, comes a thriller that will forever change the way you look at your neighbors and best friends... When the Tuckers’ next door neighbor mentions someone rang their doorbell late the previous night, Sarah and Kenny Tucker check their home’s security camera and discover something shocking: the doorbell ringer also visited their house and it wasn’t a teenager playing a prank, but instead a terrified young woman with a shackle hanging from her right wrist. She anxiously pressed the doorbell again and again, glancing over her shoulder as if someone was coming for her, before giving up and taking off into the dark. Almost overnight, she becomes known as The Girl on the Porch—and she’s everywhere. There are updates on all the local networks, national coverage on CNN and Fox News, and the video goes viral on social media. Before long, everyone has seen the harrowing security camera footage. Kenny and Sarah figure it’s only a matter of time before someone recognizes the woman, but as the days pass and no one comes forward, odd things begin to transpire around the Tucker family: a man intensely watches them at a restaurant and then vanishes, fresh footprints appear in the garden next to their house where no one should have been, a neighbor’s pet is viciously killed and mutilated, and a mysterious man has started following their daughter Natalie... A rollercoaster ride of compelling twists and turns, The Girl on the Porch demonstrates why Stephen King says Richard Chizmar’s writing is “powerful” and Robert McCammon calls his work “hard-hitting, spooky, suspenseful, harrowing, and heartbreaking.”
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3.25
Cover 3; characters 3; Plot 3; Pace 4; Intrigue 3; Logic 3; worldbuilding 3; Writing 4; Enjoyment 3
This was fine. It seemed like it was going to be more gritty from the synopsis but it was really just a slice of life tale with not a lot of plot. The whole thing took place over just a few days and there wasn't really anything all that interesting that happened.
The story overall would have benefitted from about 100 pages more of build up and plot that made the ending feel more of a twist or even interesting? It was also weird that the cops would think our MC was the villain the whole time but tell him everything that was happening and everything they found out about the case and just be like "But don't tell anyone". Makes zero sense.