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Didn't detest it and so much equally didn't necessarily like information technology either.
Noticed some editing errors which for me is always supremely distracting especially in a less than engaging story.
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As for characters, I
Didn't hate it so much as didn't necessarily like information technology either.
Noticed some editing errors which for me is ever supremely distracting peculiarly in a less than engaging story.
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As for characters, I was disappointed at that place equally well. Did anyone else discover how extremely exact and precocious a barely turned three year sometime Will was? Connie, the long suffering always available perfect sitter...whatsoever. That one character lone is enough to piss off all your single mother readers. Next, making it and then easy to naturally pull for the heroine is the gambling, unfaithful, spoiled nativity mother and the arrogant, unreasonable, philanderer husband. Throw in a stalking killer psychopath who has never been defenseless and a costless sexual practice scene with a hot Latin lover and nosotros have the makings of a made for Boob tube Lifetime movie of the week. Problem is if I'1000 not thinking big screen then it'south obvious that this story has likewise many flaws making it unworthy of more than.
A couple of storyline problems:
How did lowlife Beach man always know at the exact moment when a character was going to put two and two together and find them instantaneously only in time to impale them? The murder of the lawyer was the flimsiest. What purpose did this serve? Just considering maybe she might notice out? Then he would also need to off the gauge, social workers, nurses, doctors, and basically anyone who was involved with Timothy/Will from the hospital and adoption proceedings. Why did she hold that she was having an matter? Or was that a red herring? Never explained. Why impale Amy now? She'south known all along. Puzzler.
I don't listen sex scenes especially with a Latin hottie however the timing of this one was bizarre. Woman is virtually to lose everything, (job, child, life) but correct before she sneaks off to the doom she all all of a sudden realizes is coming, she squeezes in a quickie. Right, crusade that'due south what most of us would practise facing the same conundrum.
I totally sympathise how someone would be haunted by something so much so that they are agape to verbalize it in the beginning. But how did Ellen not have one freaking friend to confide in peculiarly later her Florida trip? Her lack of communication throughout bellyaching me. Guess she wasn't that close to Courtney after all because she never gave her a second idea later on she was fired.
Final and nigh deflating was the entirely predictable and implausible ending. Of course, nascence mom will be killed defending her son. Naturally, she volition have no parents or siblings to muddied the waters. And of course, dad is not the biological dad because that volition easily clear the path for the heroine to win her kid back.
I'm not a legal expert just I see MAJOR issues with Ellen'due south adoption being valid menstruation. It was an illegal adoption since Amy was not related to him in any way, legally or biologically and she KIDNAPPED him with Beach bum. Hi? Secondly, if Bill is listed as Timothy's begetter on the nascency certificate then he is legally the dad, biological science or not. Remember this human being also raised him as his own for merely as long as Ellen did and he has simply as much right to claim him as she does. What, is she the merely ane who has parental feelings beyond Dna? Weird how possessive the writer portrayed Bill when he reunites with Timothy/Will and so just as quickly relinquishes said child, the son he was almost destroyed afterward losing the starting time time, over some missing Deoxyribonucleic acid in his blood? Ridiculous.
Fast read. Could be used as a vacation or embankment book that you wouldn't be besides cleaved up most if you lost or damaged information technology on the trip. Or like I said at the beginning, Try Again.
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This was my outset Lisa Scottoline volume, and it'll probably likewise be my last. This book was just... all over the identify. I can't think of a single matter that I tin say I actually liked most information technology, besides the fact that it's over. This book was like being hit over the caput with... well, all of the things. My brain is now mush.
So, hither'due south what I got out of this book.
Ellen Gleeson, a REPORTER, sees a age-progressed missing child pic on one of those cards they send y'all in the postal service, and
What a mess.This was my first Lisa Scottoline book, and it'll probably as well be my last. This book was only... all over the place. I can't recall of a single matter that I can say I actually liked well-nigh it, besides the fact that it'due south over. This book was similar being hitting over the head with... well, all of the things. My brain is at present mush.
And then, hither's what I got out of this book.
Ellen Gleeson, a REPORTER, sees a age-progressed missing child picture on 1 of those cards they send you in the post, and it looks EXACTLY similar HER adopted SON, Will, who she adopted. Not close, not 'sorta looks like him', non 'could be brothers'... EXACTLY like him. (That creepy guy in the trenchcoat taking pictures from across the street terminal week? NOT a creeper after all... merely a fourth dimension traveler snagging a picture so that he can go back to the past and call it "historic period-progression". What? Fourth dimension travelling photographers are more realistic than nearly of what happened in this volume.)
Anyway, then Ellen, the REPORTER, has this little WHO IS MY BABY? earwig burrowing into her listen and can't permit it go. OH! And did I mention that she's a REPORTER, only that her paper could be firing her because layoffs, and she thinks her boss with an accent is hot, and he thinks SHE is hot, and she doesn't get fired in the first round where her boss sermonizes about how much he loves the REPORTER business organisation for 45 minutes of completely pointless time except to testify that he's a Skilful GUY WITH A Centre OF Aureate, but maybe later in the month information technology'll be her time, so she should do her job and not be distracted or miss deadlines or not file the story she's given to REPORT, or take vacation... which she does, but it's ok considering Good GUY WITH A Centre OF Gold REPORTER boss doesn't burn down her ever. LUCKY and completely REALISTIC.
Ellen is probably the All-time reporter I've ever seen. She asks all the correct questions and doesn't spring to whatsoever conclusions. Only even if she did, information technology would exist OK considering all of her stories are about the same thing (HERSELF) then they are all the Best stories because since she adopted her son, Volition, she'south got MOMMY MAGIC and so she doesn't need to exist adept at anything else! Like REPORTING. MOMMY MAGIC means y'all can just FEEL the right affair at all times, and makes critical thinking, good judgement, and rationality invalid.
Instance in signal:
- Sledding = DANGER!
- Running with a plastic lightsaber = DANGER!
- Driving at high speeds, while texting, at night, in 8 inches of snow & blizzard atmospheric condition = perfectly fine because MOMMY MAGIC!
- MOM JEANS.
MOMMY MAGIC also ways never having to decide anything ever. On the back of this book, LOOK Over again, past LISA SCOTTOLINE, it says that there'due south a MORAL DILEMMA. That is incorrect. There is no moral dilemma because MOMMY MAGIC! Everything that ELLEN, the MOMMY, thinks about has already been decided for her by outside forces of EVIL, named Sarah Liu. But we tin't feel sorry for SARAH LIU, because she'due south just EVIL considering she'south a CUTTHROAT REPORTER who is secretly caring for her husband who has MS, so that is why she had to BETRAY her fellow REPORTER, Ellen, who is a mommy similar SARAH, who also has MOMMY MAGIC, in guild to get ONE One thousand thousand DOLLARS. That is besides why SARAH quit her job equally a REPORTER, because ONE 1000000 DOLLARS is a lot of money and will support a family unit of 4, Specially one with human being who has a serious illness FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. There is no need to work.
Volition, Ellen's son, named Will, who is adopted, and likewise had heart bug from before he was adopted to be Ellen's son, also has MOMMY MAGIC, in that because he says "Mommy!" a lot, that makes him, Will, Ellen's son. Ellen's adopted son, Will, is precocious and very intelligent and can TRACE ALL BY HIMSELF. He is THREE YEARS Former and talks like he is 6 years erstwhile. This proves that ELLEN, Will's MOMMY, is a good mommy because he is ADVANCED.
THINGS HAPPEN. MOMMY MAGIC means that nobody can say this book is bad considering EMOTIONS. ELLEN, Volition'S MOMMY, is proven to be his MOMMY because other people are BAD and GREEDY and don't deserve him, and she WINS. Merely she's NICE so she lets the LOSER visit because she knows that MOMMY MAGIC means that she will never lose her child, Will, who she adopted, and is at present her son who calls her MOMMY.
ALSO, ELLEN, Volition's mommy, has sex in Chapter 69 with her GOOD GUY WITH A HEART OF GOLD REPORTER boss who then proposes to her because afterwards having sexual activity one time they are beyond dating and already know everything in that location is to know about each other and he knows that they will take a happy and wonderful life together after their Wedding, during which he volition be granted DADDY MAGIC and be invincible as well.
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Collecting the mail every bit she entered the business firm from work, Ellen Gleeson was keen to see her 3-year-old son Will. Connie, her babysitter was an affections – Ellen thought back to the twenty-four hour period she had institute her and was extremely grateful. Once Will was in bed, Ellen returned to the post – the flyer that had the words "Have You lot Seen This Kid?" across the top brought her up curt; the photo of the child on the front froze her heart. It was Will – or if it wasn't, he had a twin out there somewhere…Ellen had adopted Will when he was eighteen months former – very sick in infirmary, with no one who visited or seemed to care, Ellen fell in love with the minor child. The ensuing adoption was fully legal – she had the paperwork to prove information technology. Ellen was a reporter and knew in her heart that she had to notice the truth, even though she may not like the answer. The post-obit investigation not only threatened everything Ellen held dear, it also threatened her career and her life.
Expect Over again past Lisa Scottoline is an admittedly heart stopping psychological thriller which I couldn't put down! Twists, turns, horrors and the nearly incredible dilemma a parent could e'er face, I had my heart in my throat many times. What if it was my own child or grandchild? It doesn't bear thinking most! Look Once again is one I highly recommend to fans of the genre – and this writer never disappoints!
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Well, at to the lowest degree yous can't say I didn't warn you: I warn you not to look over again at "Look Again," but to carefully back away from this book as quickly as possible!
Warning: If yous can spoil something rotten, in that location are spoilers ahead. Lots of spoilers, considering this volume trotted out so many surprises and twists that information technology should have come with a CD containing a laugh track.
It's a knock off of the "Face on the Milk Carton" lifetime flick, except that movie was infinitely more plausible! This book has a plot which has the basic premise that Ellen adopts an infant who has been abandoned in the hospital past his fake birth female parent. When her son, Will, is 3, she sees a flyer of a missing child that looks disturbingly like her son. Fake Nascency Mother was role of the plot to kidnap the baby from Real Birth Mother, for a million dollar ransom. But and so Faux Nativity Female parent with Evil Beach Guy decide to keep the babe, because they are then nurturant, of course. Karen is an investigative reporter, unmarried parent, who conveniently has a magical babysitter who tin put all things in her life on concord, about magically, to be bachelor anytime Ellen needs to work 10-12 hour days, or disappear out of state to investigate this consequence--or do research for her task as a journalist.
Simply wait, there's more than! Ellen's boss is sexy and has an accent, then when Ellen lies to him when she'southward non bothering to do her chore, he simply keeps covering for her. Non then her nasty, competitive coworker, who somehow manages to tip off the Real Birth Mother to caput to Ellen'southward business firm to recover the child. Ellen finds out that the attorney for the adoption has not really committed suicide, but been murdered, and her child is in danger. She races dorsum habitation, with a digression for a sexual practice scene with her Sexy Accented boss thrown in, (considering this scene is patently required because there. must. be. sexual activity, and this was the only way to piece of work it in.)
But alas! Oh, woeful day! Evil Embankment Homo and Existent Birth Mother get to Ellen's house, and it turns out that Existent Birth Mother knows Evil Embankment Human, because he's really the father of the piddling boy! They were in on the plot together. Evil Embankment Man conveniently kills Real Nativity Mother (so that plot problem is conveniently dispatched). Evil Embankment Man gets offed, and Ellen rips upwardly the floor boards and then there'south not blood left lying effectually to brand the house unpleasant for footling Volition'due south side by side birthday party.
And this attitude is why I tried to stay very, very quiet during my last book social club, considering everyone else really liked the book (loved it, even!)
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Look Once again pulled me into the story from the get-go few pages. The plot was fact-paced and each chapter ended with a tiny cliffhanger that kept me guessing. For the first half of the book I couldn't put it downwards, and I couldn't plough the page fast enough to find ou
As a a fan of the thriller genre I was actually looking forward to reading this book. I had never read annihilation by Lisa Scottoline earlier either so I was also intrigued and excited; I like discovering new authors, and I wasn't disappointed.Look Over again pulled me into the story from the first few pages. The plot was fact-paced and each chapter ended with a tiny cliffhanger that kept me guessing. For the first one-half of the book I couldn't put it down, and I couldn't turn the page fast plenty to discover out what happened.
However, as I read on I realised that the only character I was probable to collaborate with was Ellen. The story did include other minor characters, and I enjoyed reading most them, but it wasn't plenty. I felt the book lacked depth. The writing is light and piece of cake and, although it managed to go on my interest, was not upwardly to the standard of other writers in the same genre.
However, this does not detract from the fact that this is a great read. I liked the protagonist, Ellen, she is warm and earthy and I could empathise with her predicament. The passages describing Ellen's feelings regarding her son and the dilemma she faced were middle-wrenching. I liked the inclusion of a love affair with Marcelo, it would have been nice if information technology was written about in more particular, every bit the human relationship happened a scrap too quickly.
Although the other characters do not feature in the book very much, what I did get to read I liked. I wish Ellen's friend, Courtney, wasn't written out in the kickoff couple of capacity, equally information technology would have been nice to have more than interaction between the characters. It was a scrap of a 1 character story.
On the whole, Look Once again is a really enjoyable read. With a fast-paced plot and likeable characters, it had plenty to keep my involvement until the very end and I finished the book in two days. I would definitely recommend it, peculiarly to those who honey the genre.
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A mother receives a flyer in the mail with a motion picture of a missing child who looks just like the child she legally adopted a couple of years agone. What should she do? What would I do? No fashion should this book have had a happy ending. Arrrrgh.
Ellen, the adopted mother, wants to know the truth about her child. She'due south a announcer. OF COURSE. Turns out the nascency female parent sold her son for coin. OF COURSE. The adopted female parent, while frantically trying to find out the
Damn. This book had so much potential.A mother receives a flyer in the mail with a motion picture of a missing kid who looks just similar the child she legally adopted a couple of years agone. What should she do? What would I do? No way should this book have had a happy ending. Arrrrgh.
Ellen, the adopted mother, wants to know the truth about her child. She's a announcer. OF COURSE. Turns out the birth female parent sold her son for money. OF Form. The adopted female parent, while aimlessly trying to notice out the truth about her adopted son, falls in love. OF Course. He's a hunk. OF COURSE. The birth dad gets custody of the child at the terminate and then turns out non to be the real begetter. OF Form. Adopted mother and son end up together, mother is engaged to hunk, non-begetter becomes benefactor to his non-kid. WTF?
Worst part of the volume? Ellen and Marcelo (OF Class THAT'S HIS Proper noun) go it on. Ellen lays her caput on a "musky patch of his breast." DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN.
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Unfortunately, Await Again was none of those. I found the plot fatigued out and a fleck incredulous. Although, the book had an interesting premise -- namely that of a mother of an
This is the third Scottoline book I've read, having absolutely fallen in love with the showtime book I read by her, Killer Grinning. Killer Grin was wonderful for its sense of place existence set in Philadelpia, where I lived for several years. Her grapheme was strong and interesting and the plot complicated enough to be interesting.Unfortunately, Look Again was none of those. I found the plot fatigued out and a chip incredulous. Although, the book had an interesting premise -- namely that of a mother of an admopted boy receives a missing child observe and has a terrible feeling that her son, although adopted totally legally, may be this missing child.
The mother instead of dismissing the thought as ridiculous, decides to observe out whether it could be possible. Here's where the whole plot goes crazy and this single mom reporter becomes Nancy Drew. Instead of simply contacting the authorities or the parents for a deoxyribonucleic acid test, she nearly loses her job in an obsessive hunt complete with disguises, car chases, and murders. That may sound heady just the plot was drawn out with long "mommy" scenes of angst and rather dull side-stories (east.one thousand. the sledding trip) equally a ways of prolonging a not very mysterious mystery with tension that wasn't actually all that tense.
I was very disappointed in this volume and predicted the catastrophe waaaaay before it ended. There were no surprises in this book. The character was actually a bit annoying (because she had plenty of opportunities to explain what was going on in her life and obtaining assist, but chose to be silent) and silly in her very round-most way of putting her adopted son'south identity to residue. Even the sense of place in this book was not as fresh and rich as Scottoline can right. Certain she named streets and towns, but I missed the local color of Killer Grinning. The things that make Philadelphia unique and memorable.
I will endeavor Scottoline once again because of my first experience with her work. I know she can write wonderfully. This book, however, may exist helping pay the bills, but it is definitely not her best work.
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Ellen, an adoptive female parent, pauses when the photo in a missing kid flier looks eerily like her adopted son. Wow, what a great premise. What would 1 do if one'southward child belonged to someone else? What's the right thing, what's the moral matter, what's all-time for that child?
Sadly, the author turns this into a poorly written thriller with an all-also-convenient happy ending.
Randomly, this line bugg
This book had such an intriguing and promising premise, and such a terrible and disappointing execution.Ellen, an adoptive mother, pauses when the photo in a missing child flier looks eerily like her adopted son. Wow, what a great premise. What would one do if one's child belonged to someone else? What's the correct thing, what's the moral thing, what's best for that child?
Sadly, the author turns this into a poorly written thriller with an all-likewise-convenient happy ending.
Randomly, this line bugged the hell out of me, but maybe it'south just me: "A ladies' room is a girl headquarters."
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Ellen investigation will see her uncovering a complicated but besides tragic tale of events that volition put everything that she holds dearest on the line including her own life. Not only does she put her own employment at risk merely also her sanity as she tries to uncover the truth all the while thinking she may observe herself in an incommunicable position of having to let her son become.
This story has information technology all drama, romance, family unit bonds, intrigue, suspense, sense of humour and plenty fast paced action to keep readers up to the wee hours. Simply when you lot call back y'all have things worked out and so bam Scottoline throws another curve ball. Combining crime and moral dilemma Scottoline has created a novel that will stay with you long after you take finished reading.
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Lisa Scottoline takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride that will accept you hanging on till the very terminate in Look Again. Fans of Lisa's will be happy with this latest release. I don't intendance who you are merely I dare you non to weep, fight and cheer for Ellen as she does everything she tin can equally a female parent to concur on to her son. Beware of the wrath of a female parent'south beloved for her son. I know I couldn't stop reading. In fact every time I started to put this book downwardly I would become running back to information technology. I am a fan of Ms. Scottoline and plan to exist for a very long time. I urge y'all to make the right choice and take another expect at Look Again.
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FYI this is the first book I've read by this author. It's described as an emotionally charged, centre-pounding thriller and I hold. I would dear to read more by this author.
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Information technology was like looking into 'existent' lives as I read the book. I could actually place myself into the shoes of our main graphic symbol Ellen, and often did, who is a loving, compas
This has been 1 of the most idea provoking, profound, and compelling stories I accept read this year. If you are a parent yous would feel the same fashion. I got into this book thanks to World Book Night. It was the book I decided to hand out to my community and I only hope that those people are as affected by this story equally I was.It was like looking into 'real' lives equally I read the book. I could actually identify myself into the shoes of our main character Ellen, and frequently did, who is a loving, compassionate mother, who would do anything to go along her child safe from damage. To protect him from any evil in that location is in the world. And so enquire yourself, what do you do when you discover secrets that could snatch that child from your life?
Lisa Scottoline has a nifty ability to write a very believable tale. She tin make you feel so many emotions with the turn of every folio. I look forward to many more of her books. If you are a parent, then this is a must read and very deserving of 5 stars.
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Ellen Gleeson is a reporter, a single mother and a seeker of truth. When she sees a card with the photo of a missing child on it, she sees the resemblance to her adopted son. Ellen takes off on a truth-seeking mission to discover who her son really is, hers or someone else's? Then will come the question, what shall I practise about it?
Tracking clues, Ellen keeps running into roadblocks
This is a story of truth. What is the truth and how does one handle it when the truth hurts more one tin can imagine?Ellen Gleeson is a reporter, a single mother and a seeker of truth. When she sees a card with the photo of a missing child on information technology, she sees the resemblance to her adopted son. Ellen takes off on a truth-seeking mission to find who her son really is, hers or someone else's? Then volition come up the question, what shall I practice near it?
Tracking clues, Ellen keeps running into roadblocks and expressionless bodies. She is trying to hang onto her job, doing a story on the heartbreak of murdered children, and keeping her ain sanity as she slowly realizes that her son, Will, may not be who she thought he was.
Once she realizes danger is merely alee she tries to avoid it, and save her son and herself, but and so the real ache begins. When Volition is legally taken from her, she tin can truly relate to the mothers she interviewed who had as well lost children. Its not a good place to be.
With candor and a fast-footstep, Scottoline keeps u.s. turning the pages waiting to see what tin can perchance happen next. The decision is not what y'all would expect, but the roller coaster ride of emotions is plenty to get anyone's heart pounding.
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Short chapters make this book easy to read. But I do take to question, why, for a best-selling writer, Scottoline repeats phrases over and over in her book. Some examples: "hit the gas", nearly every time her main graphic symbol is driving; and "fumbled in her bag" every time her jail cell phone rings. Drove me crazy- I tin can't understand how unlike phrases/descriptions are not used. Do these editors/authors not check these things?
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The cease of the book was excellent though and the pace really picked upwardly and I enjoyed that. I definitely retrieve the last 10 or and then chapters were the best in the book.
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Besides almost throwing me into an anxiety attack, this book had me balling my eyes out at one point. I was literally an emotional wreck.
I read this book a few years ago and it has stuck with me.It actually striking me to my core, no other book since has come close to putting me in such an emotional state as this book did.
I'd similar to check out more of this author's piece of work, her writing is magnificent to be able to ma
This book had my eye pounding hardcore from the very commencement until the very concluding page.As well almost throwing me into an feet attack, this volume had me balling my optics out at one signal. I was literally an emotional wreck.
I read this volume a few years ago and it has stuck with me.Information technology really striking me to my core, no other book since has come close to putting me in such an emotional state as this book did.
I'd like to bank check out more than of this writer's work, her writing is magnificent to be able to brand the reader feel so much, to actually go lost in the story and brand the characters seem so darn existent.
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I should have left it on the shelf.
The writing was mediocre at all-time, simply the story was wretched. Adoptive mother Ellen sees a missing child flier in her mailbox, and the age progressed picture looks remarkably like her son, whom she had adopted from the hospital after he was aba
I picked this book up somewhere and it's been sitting on my bookshelf for quite some time. I always looked at it and then chose something else, simply I was finally out of reading material at home and the library was closed.I should have left information technology on the shelf.
The writing was mediocre at all-time, but the story was wretched. Adoptive female parent Ellen sees a missing child flier in her mailbox, and the historic period progressed motion picture looks remarkably like her son, whom she had adopted from the infirmary later he was abandoned there because of heart problems. The adoption was closed, and then she had to exercise some sleuthing to find out the names of the birth parents. The more she poked around, the more than people ended up dead.
If you haven't read it and want to, stop reading now!
The missing child was, in fact, Ellen'south adopted son. He had been kidnapped 2 years before in a carjacking where the nanny was killed and the kid was never seen again.
What really sucked about the whole sucky thing was that the biological female parent had conspired with the kidnapper to take the kid for ransom. She had some serious gambling debts, and her husband was loaded but apparently she had promised him she would quit. Kidnapper took the ransom, female parent skimming enough from it to pay her debts, and he was supposed to return the child. Which he didn't.
It was a tangled web, just as heart-wrenching as some of the scenes were, the catastrophe was far too tidy for such a messy story.
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LOOK Once more bring out emotionally charged questions of family, motherhood, career, relationships, and justice. It has solid and realistic characters, gripping plot evolution and a strong unstoppable female person heroine--it was easy to root for Ellen (she was very nice change to all those unlikeable and deceptive protagonists I've read lately!). There's also plenty of intensity, twists, and turns to keep you lot glued to the pages.
I didn't give birth t
Romantic Suspense, Domestic, Kidnapping, AdoptionLOOK AGAIN bring out emotionally charged questions of family, motherhood, career, relationships, and justice. It has solid and realistic characters, gripping plot development and a potent unstoppable female person heroine--it was like shooting fish in a barrel to root for Ellen (she was very nice change to all those unlikeable and deceptive protagonists I've read lately!). There's also plenty of intensity, twists, and turns to keep you glued to the pages.
I didn't give birth to Volition, but I am tied to him every bit surely as if we shared blood. I am his real mother.
It's the love, that binds
If you liked this story and want something else in this line, so I suggest another very moving and captivating story - Cry No More by Linda Howard. This is a story involving kidnapping only this fourth dimension told from the mother's angle who relentlessly search for her kidnapped son.
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Rushing home from work one day and eager to confront domesticity, she is blindsided by a picture on a small white card – 1 of those "missing children" advertisements. At outset glance, she is sure that the poor lighting of her porch is the explanation. But upon closer inspection, every bit
Ellen Gleeson is a busy single mom and paper reporter, and despite the fact that layoffs at the newspaper loom on the horizon, ratcheting up the stress another notch, she believes that her life is but near perfect.Rushing domicile from work one 24-hour interval and eager to face domesticity, she is blindsided by a pic on a modest white card – one of those "missing children" advertisements. At first glance, she is sure that the poor lighting of her porch is the explanation. But upon closer inspection, equally her blood chills, she confirms that the child in the photo is an identical match to her own adopted three-year-old son Will.
A beloved child she met while doing a story – at the time, he was recuperating in a infirmary following centre surgery – and in the weeks that information technology takes to consummate her assignment, she has fallen in beloved with the kid. Everything seemingly lines upwardly neatly in the process of adopting this supposedly abandoned kid.
At present, with her earth crashing around her on all fronts – her work life and home life are up for grabs – Ellen scrambles to find out the truth…while juggling all aspects of her life, as if she even so has everything under command.
As the suspense mounts, we follow Ellen as she attempts to backtrack on the adoption process; with one trail after another leading to "dead" ends, she begins to doubt her own sanity – and then wonders almost her safety.
A thrill ride that kept me upwards at dark, "Look Again" is a delightful tale with poignancy, mystery, and even that "love stuff," equally Ellen begins to autumn hard for an unexpected human being in her life.
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I DID like this book a lot. I DID go attached to the characters. I only gave information technology iii stars because I thought the story was kind of all over the place. I thought the author could take simplified the same plot - rec
I picked this upwards in the bookstore and didn't desire to buy it. I don't similar to read books about kids that are a sad story because it hurts too much as a mother to read them. Still, I kept coming back to this book, re-reading the cover, telling myself: I can handle it. So I bought it!I DID like this book a lot. I DID become attached to the characters. I simply gave it three stars because I thought the story was kind of all over the place. I idea the author could have simplified the same plot - recognizing a male child who shows up on a Missing Child poster - and done and then much more with it. I was expecting so much more.
I didn't think the main character'south piece of work bug needed to be such a focal bespeak of the story, or maybe the relationship with the dominate could have been amend-developed. Besides, the whole "where the boy came from" story was a niggling far-fetched for me. I call back the story would have been much more effective if it had been actually possible, in an eerie "it could happen to me" sort of manner.
Recommend to a friend? Yep. Rave most for months? No.
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This was a quick read, simply not considering it was compelling. More-and so considering I wanted to get information technology over with and read a book that I actually WANT to read. The plot was manner too unbelievable and ridiculous to actually one thousand
A friend of mine said this volume is 'unremarkable.' I can't think of a better cess. I most gave information technology 1 star, considering information technology elicited basically no response from me at all... but I figured since I can't actually say I hated information technology or that information technology was absolutely horrible, it probably deserves ii stars.This was a quick read, but non because it was compelling. More-so because I wanted to get it over with and read a volume that I actually Want to read. The plot was manner too unbelievable and ridiculous to actually get emotionally involved in, and the characters were fairly undeveloped, so I felt no connexion to them. I suppose this book does present the "What would you do?" scenario, but whether it's the author'southward mistake or the fact that I am non a parent, I didn't even feel strongly challenged by the moral dilemma presented in the volume.
Besides, while I'yard a person who likes having chapters & breaks, this book had a ridiculous corporeality of chapters (96 in 330 pages). There were capacity in places that had no business being their own chapter. I felt like it disrupted the flow of the story at times.
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