The Homing by Jeffrey Campbell
Turns out there are a lot of books called The Homing. This one, by Jeffrey Campbell, is a mystery/thriller about a guy trying to figure out why his daughter has changed from a fun-loving, sarcastic psychology student into a Stepford wife. There’s a lot of promise in the book but it doesn’t really pan out.
Campbell crams a load of backstory into the first chapter, then marches you through a plot that gets increasingly more complicated and farther from the original, before quickly wrapping everything up in a few pages. I felt like there were a million plot holes but when I looked back on it, I guess there weren’t. It was just that the story had changed so drastically and was finished so quickly that my brain didn’t have time to assimilate the “truth” before it was all done. So it was surprising but unsatisfying.
It was a fast-paced, plot-based book. The characters were lightly drawn and the mystery starts from page one. Don’t expect much else.