Author: Anne Cassidy
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Date Published: 4th February 2008
GoodReads Synopsis:
A child has been stolen...Jade Henderson is missing, taken from her cot. Stella Parfitt watches the police investigation unfold, and begins to ask her own questions. Where was her mother that night? The woods hold a dark secret..My review:
I liked this book. I liked the mother/daughter relationship and how it changed points of view between what was happening to Stella in the present and what Trish was dealing with when she was eighteen. I thought the topic was excellent (child kidnapped).. A fault that I thought let the book down was that it concentrated more on what happened to Trish when she was younger rather then what was happening in present day. At first I though that it was creating a background story but then that point of view started taking over the whole thing.
I couldn’t really connect with Stella or Trish throughout the book. I thought stella acted younger then her eighteen years because if how she acted and how she dealt with the situations with her mother. I thought she would be more mature than she was.
Also the ending of the book was vague and didn’t conclude the book very well. It wasn’t explained in much detail and seemed rushed.
In conclusion this book was ok and it was a good read but I probably won’t be reading this again. I wouldn’t go out and buy it but if they have it in your local library and you want a quick read then I would prompt you to pick it up.
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Nice review, it summed up what i thought of the book too :)
ReplyDeleteI think so too. The main topic of the book seemed interesting but it focused on the mother's background a lot. The jumps between past and present were confusing too because I'm not a native speaker. Nevertheless it was okay. :)
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