Missing Colors by Lana Orndorff - Rajiv's Reviews

Missing Colors by Lana Orndorff

Release: August 25, 2020
Format: Ebook
Publisher: Three South Press
Source: RABT Book Tours
Find it at: Amazon, Kindle, B&N,TBD , Kobo

Friends since childhood, Logan Ritter and Hunter James are now only held together by family ties and a history of codependency. Logan is a doctoral student and teacher who wraps himself in work, Hunter’s parents, and his other long-time friend, Missy. Meanwhile, Hunter, struggling to balance his summer undergraduate courses, a part-time job, and his ever-increasing alcoholism, becomes obsessed with a misguided young woman he’s never met. As their university town experiences unprecedented fear in the summer of 2002, each man’s life becomes blurred by self-absorption, assumptions, and full-on delusions. When faced with some undeniable truths, Logan and Hunter must decide how to untangle themselves from the false realities to which they’ve been clinging.

About the Author:

Lana Orndorff lives in Chicago and works as a freelance writer. She worked and traveled as an ESL teacher for many years and has an extensive background in teaching writing to native and non-native speakers. Also, she has taught students from all over the world face-to-face and online. This has helped her grow as a person, a traveler, a writer, and a lover of language. She holds an MA in English from Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

She prefers beautifully tragic fiction that fractures her heart. Because of this, her husband rarely takes her book recommendations. However, in her daily life, she strongly prefers her heart to remain fully intact.
Lana has written web content, educational materials, magazine articles, and fiction and loves helping others express themselves through writing.

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Missing Colors Review:

This was a very strange story, yet written in a compelling manner that makes it memorable.

The author writes the story in such a way that steps away from the norm. The characters are not clichéd, and the storyline is very unique where you don’t know what will happen until the very end.

Logan and Hunter are complex characters. What’s interesting is that, although I did not like either of the two characters as individuals, I enjoyed the complex volatile relationship they shared. As the story progressed, you see how the characters grow and mature. I thought Hunter was more complex because of the way he lives his life and changes for the better. Frankly, I felt Logan was a bland and I only liked him when he was with Missy or Mercedes. I particularly liked the storyline where Hunter researches to find out about Diana. Mary and Jack also had a fascinating history, and the side plot of the serial attacker on campus was quite intriguing. On a side note, reading this book sparked my interest to read Sons and Lovers and A Brave New World, because of its references.

However, the only reason I did not give this book 5 stars is because of its shift of focus at times. Initially, the story feels like a mystery revolving around various characters. You feel that the story starts with a rivalry between Logan and Hunter, but then it shifts focus to a serial attacker on campus, followed by Hunter’s obsession with Diana, and lastly Jack and Mary’s life. While I enjoyed reading these plots individually, there interconnection could have been better .

Apart from that, this was very interesting and I enjoyed it.

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