This book is hard to summarize. In some ways, it was very good. In some ways, it was disjointed, overly wordy, and went on a lot of side paths that felt irrelevant. I guess I'd describe it as the partial story of three adult foundlings, one victimized child, a psychopathic killer and a bunch of other characters. There were a lot of loose ends at the conclusion. It wasn't, to me, a cohesive story but more like a bunch of novellas put together. I know I saw it described as a "psychological thriller" somewhere. There were suspenseful moments.

People who can keep track of a lot of details and separate story lines at the same time.

* Jessie's character. Oddly, she wasn't even mentioned in the blurb on the back of the book.

* That Amelia/Mimi finally grew a backbone at the end of the book and her "be fierce" chant.

* The multicultural nature of the book.

* This book had the potential to be great, but as I mentioned above, it just felt too disjointed to me. I also didn't really relate well to the "main" character, Amelia until near the end of the book. {spoiler alert} For example, if she really suspected her husband of being unfaithful why would she bury her head in the sand? There was no good reason for her to live with that.

* So many loose ends still hanging at the end of the book.

* That so much of the book was spent on irrelevant details and secondary, tertiary and beyond story lines.

* I know the villain has to be unlikeable but his crimes were bad enough. {spoiler alert} She didn't have to make him have murderous intentions toward his own children.

Part of me thought about reading the first book in the series to see of that would resolve all my issues with this one but if it's all over the place like this one, I'll just pass.

Frustrated.

Is a New York Times bestselling author.

It wasn't a great reading experience.

I bought the paperback copy of this book on Amazon. I used the Kindle code because I didn't see a code for the paperback copy.

Having read the advertisement for the book (I'll paste it below), I thought it was going to be a romantic suspense crossed with a psychological thriller that primarily revolved around two adult characters, a child survivor and a villain. It turned out to be a disjointed story about way too many characters, there was no romantic suspense and there were a lot of superfluous sidetracks.


"Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help this silent little boy who is unable—or unwilling—to communicate his past. Though her own roots remain shrouded in mystery, she relies on tangible DNA evidence to help fellow foundlings uncover theirs . . . until a remarkable twist of fate presents a stranger bearing an eerily familiar childhood souvenir.

NYPD Missing Persons Detective Stockton Barnes has spent his career searching for other people’s lost loved ones and outrunning a youthful misstep. Now a chance encounter with a key player from that fateful night leads him on a desperate quest to locate the one woman he’s ever regretted leaving—unless a savage killer finds her first.

As Amelia and Barnes uncover intertwining truths—and lies—the real horror emerges not in crimes already committed, but in evil yet to come ."

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