Series ✦ Penny’s Take
The Lost Notebook
Louise Douglas · 2022
68/100
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Louise Douglas builds genuine atmospheric texture in a Brittany setting, and the emotional grounding of her character work earned this UK Kindle Unlimited number-one real reader affection. The central mystery involves a young woman driven to suicide by a targeted hate campaign, handled seriously rather than sensationally, but faith-family audiences should know it is a substantive plot element rather than a background detail. Some readers also felt the first book's arc ends without full resolution. Worth it for adult mystery fans; a heads-up for others.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: suicide-plot · grief-from-accidental-death · hate-campaign. We still scored it 68; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety65
Substance / usefulness66
Craft & writing70
Originality64
Evidence & accuracy74
Hype vs delivers64
Age-fit78
👁 Human-eye gut-check73
Penny’s verdict68
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