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May 05, 2018MelyssaLynnKoopman rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Jane is a teenager when she loses a five-year-old girl, Lily, in a forest while looking after her. Fast forward 20 years later, Jane is now an archivist that's discovered another missing woman, N-, from an insane asylum in the same part of the woods as Lily, only 100 years before. I found the synopsis of The World Before Us to be misleading, as I anticipated that the main storyline or mystery would be based on Jane finding a link between the two disappearances that occurred essentially in the same place, a century apart. Not the case. About halfway through the book, you slowly begin to realize that the main plot focuses on finding N-. In the end, it didn't seem like there was much of a mystery to begin with and what was discovered was hardly worth reading about. Overall, I found this to be a frustrating read and was left disappointed.