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Finding Emma
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Steena Holmes (Goodreads Author)
Megan sees her daughter Emma everywhere. She's the little girl standing in the supermarket, the child waiting for the swings at the playground, the girl with ice cream dripping down her face. But it's never Emma.
Emma's been missing for two years.
Unable to handle the constant heartache of all the false sightings, Megan's husband threatens to walk away unless Megan can agree...more
Emma's been missing for two years.
Unable to handle the constant heartache of all the false sightings, Megan's husband threatens to walk away unless Megan can agree...more
Paperback, 265 pages
Published
April 1st 2012
by Steena Holmes
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Finding Emma is a story that goes straight to the heart. Suspenseful and gripping, the reader experiences the full range of emotions as author Steena Holmes artfully guides us through an experience we all hope we never face.
Megan and Peter, the parents of three sweet daughters, begin the long journey into a parent's worst nightmare when three-year-old Emma suddenly disappears from her own home.
Through two years of searching, praying, and wishing, her loss consumes the family and no one more so...more
Megan and Peter, the parents of three sweet daughters, begin the long journey into a parent's worst nightmare when three-year-old Emma suddenly disappears from her own home.
Through two years of searching, praying, and wishing, her loss consumes the family and no one more so...more
What an emotional story of a women whose younger daughter has gone missing. Emma has been missing for two years and Meagan's life is falling apart all around her desperately wanting her daughter back. Will she find her? Does she save her family from falling apart? Read this story and find out!
Steena Holmes does a fabulous job with the character building and writing about the human condition these characters find themselves facing.
An intense, heart- wrenching story that will change you. I rated...more
Steena Holmes does a fabulous job with the character building and writing about the human condition these characters find themselves facing.
An intense, heart- wrenching story that will change you. I rated...more
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I was on my kindle looking for a cheap book to read and somehow after clicking 50 various random recommendations I stumbled this one and thought eh why not cant be too awful plus its only $4 sy o I got it and am actually very happy I did. For a book/author I had never heard of I was very pleasantly surprised. Very emotional mystery/drama about a mother and her desire to bring her baby home. When everyone tells her its time to move on from her daughters disappearance two years ago she can't seem...more
Megan is trying to live her life,one day at a time, two years after her daughter Emma disappeared, but subconsciously she is looking everywhere for Emma and her mind plays tricks on her, making her mistake other little girls for her daughter. Megan has learned to keep these instances of mistaken identity to herself for fear of her husband's reaction to them - usually, impatience, anger and threats of 'putting her back on medication'.
Megan's husband is DREADFUL. Megan spends most of her time angs...more
Megan's husband is DREADFUL. Megan spends most of her time angs...more
A 3 to girl disappears, leaving her parents and 2 sisters in perpetual unrest two years afterward.
Elsewhere, two grandparents are raising their 5 yo granddaughter.
There's no mystery, the girls even have similar names, Emma and Emmie. The characters are likable, albeit one-dimnensional, the plot predictable, the writing marginal. The writing contained many cliches, confusing pronouns, and the most egregious grammar taboo, starting too many sentences with "it".
One of the minor characters was a 3 y...more
Elsewhere, two grandparents are raising their 5 yo granddaughter.
There's no mystery, the girls even have similar names, Emma and Emmie. The characters are likable, albeit one-dimnensional, the plot predictable, the writing marginal. The writing contained many cliches, confusing pronouns, and the most egregious grammar taboo, starting too many sentences with "it".
One of the minor characters was a 3 y...more
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This was a story that had me on the edge of my seat, because I had intense feelings for each of the characters. Megan and Peter have a lovely family with three children, the eldest is Hannah, the middle sister is Alexis, and the youngest is Emma.
The girls were enjoying a local carnival on Emma’s third birthday when she disappeared in the blink of an eye. This is where the story begins.
Megan’s determination to find her daughter turns in to what her husband considers an obsession. He feels that Me...more
The girls were enjoying a local carnival on Emma’s third birthday when she disappeared in the blink of an eye. This is where the story begins.
Megan’s determination to find her daughter turns in to what her husband considers an obsession. He feels that Me...more
This story is heartbreaking. A mother turns around in her kitchen to find her three year old daughter is gone. She wandered out the open door and...vanished like a balloon in the sky. Megan has spent three years seeing her daughter on every blonde little girl in the street. Peter is struggling to hold their family together and their two remaining daughters are just as lost as Emma. As the story unravels so does Megan. She fears her husband is cheating on her, he keeps eyeballing the cop Megan's...more
Ever since her youngest daughter was kidnapped, Megan's been falling apart. She tries to stay sane and normal for her husband and two other daughters, but it's not working. She keeps thinking she sees Emma, but she's always wrong. And then one day, she looks through pictures she took when they went to the fair and she sees Emma in the background.
Meanwhile, Emmie is a young girl who lives with her grandparents. She loves them both, but it's hard because her grandma is very overprotective. Emmie i...more
Meanwhile, Emmie is a young girl who lives with her grandparents. She loves them both, but it's hard because her grandma is very overprotective. Emmie i...more
Megan and Peter are living every parent's worst nightmare. Their three-year-old daughter, Emma, has disappeared. It has been two years without Emma and it has taken a massive toll on their family. Megan thinks she sees Emma constantly and Peter is pulling away from her. Their other two daughters, Alexis and Hannah, are also struggling in their own way. The whole family is in danger of coming apart and Peter has given Megan an ultimatum: either finally put this behind them and concentrate on the...more
What is it about? This is a parent's worst nightmare. They turn around and their child disappears. This is a story of a mother's quest to find her daughter and at the same time keep her family together. This book gives two points of view (a) the mother that lost the child and (b) the man that took her.
What I liked: As a mother, this book really tugged at my heartstrings. The thought of never seeing my child again is unthinkable to me and the author really portrays the emotions at some points.
Wha...more
What I liked: As a mother, this book really tugged at my heartstrings. The thought of never seeing my child again is unthinkable to me and the author really portrays the emotions at some points.
Wha...more
I received "Finding Emma" as part of a Goodreads giveaway. I've never been so glad to win a book!
"Finding Emma" is an incredible book. The characters have depth, weaknesses and faults, which is sorely lacking in much modern fiction. The main character, Megan, is slowly allowing her marriage and ties to her remaining two daughters to fall apart as she searches fruitlessly for her missing child.
Megan sees Emma everywhere. Every child with curly blonde hair is Emma to her, leading to confrontations...more
"Finding Emma" is an incredible book. The characters have depth, weaknesses and faults, which is sorely lacking in much modern fiction. The main character, Megan, is slowly allowing her marriage and ties to her remaining two daughters to fall apart as she searches fruitlessly for her missing child.
Megan sees Emma everywhere. Every child with curly blonde hair is Emma to her, leading to confrontations...more
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I knew I'd enjoy this book, but really I loved it. My heart broke for Peter and Megan, whose marriage is being held together by a thread. It's not a surprise that many relationships don't survive this kind of tragedy. Your heart breaks over and over again, it would be hard to not take out some frustration on the person nearest you. And the other problem is devoting so much energy to finding your missing child that you completely ignore your family that is still there.
The...more
I knew I'd enjoy this book, but really I loved it. My heart broke for Peter and Megan, whose marriage is being held together by a thread. It's not a surprise that many relationships don't survive this kind of tragedy. Your heart breaks over and over again, it would be hard to not take out some frustration on the person nearest you. And the other problem is devoting so much energy to finding your missing child that you completely ignore your family that is still there.
The...more
I never want to experience what this mom and dad experience in Finding Emma. Megan, the mom, loses track of her three-year-old for less than a minute one summer afternoon, but it’s enough to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her, forever.
The characters are drawn with eerie realism in this family drama. Megan descends the slippery twin slopes of depression and obsession. I found her totally believable, and as the double bind she finds herself in gets worse and worse, I feel her pa...more
The characters are drawn with eerie realism in this family drama. Megan descends the slippery twin slopes of depression and obsession. I found her totally believable, and as the double bind she finds herself in gets worse and worse, I feel her pa...more
I had the pleasure of reading an advanced copy of this book.
Four year old Emma goes missing. Her family searches frantically for her but there are no leads. Now Megan, Emma's mother, sees her daughter in every child. More than once she has brought hardship on the family because of mistaken identity. Two years later, and the search is taking its toll on the entire family. Megan's husband and daughters feel like they've not only lost their little sister, but their mother too. But can Megan ever st...more
Four year old Emma goes missing. Her family searches frantically for her but there are no leads. Now Megan, Emma's mother, sees her daughter in every child. More than once she has brought hardship on the family because of mistaken identity. Two years later, and the search is taking its toll on the entire family. Megan's husband and daughters feel like they've not only lost their little sister, but their mother too. But can Megan ever st...more
I guess I kind of assumed that a book with a child abduction in the beginning of it would be emotional and suspenseful. There was only one point in the novel during which I had to choke back a tiny sob and the author kind of took most of the suspense out of the equation early only. All of the plot points were delivered flat and matter-of-factly. I didn't feel any great connections to any of the main characters and I felt a little unfulfilled with what information we got out of Dottie. I just wis...more
What would you do if your daughter just disappeared? Just walked out the door and vanished? What would this do to your family? Would your marriage survive? How would your relationship with your other children be affected? How would you cope? How would it affect you?
You have a chance to change the past mistakes you had made with your daughter by raising your granddaughter differently. Can things be different? Can you keep her safe? Is keeping her isolated on the farm the best thing? Your wife's i...more
You have a chance to change the past mistakes you had made with your daughter by raising your granddaughter differently. Can things be different? Can you keep her safe? Is keeping her isolated on the farm the best thing? Your wife's i...more
I loved reading this book! As a parent, one of the worst fears you have is losing a child. When Emma is ripped from the arms of here loving family, disappearing virtually without a trace, he mother Megan leads the charge for two years, never giving up hope that Emma will be found. For a long time, she sees Emma everywhere and no amount of counseling will help her to cope with the loss of her daughter. In her heart, she knows that Emma is out there somewhere and will continue to look, despite the...more
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I loved this book. Steena described this as the book of her heart and you can tell. It's in every word.
I became so emotionally invested in this book. This story is every mother's worst nightmare: Megan turns around in her own home and Emma is gone. For three years she's been looking for her child in every blonde little girl and it's putting a strain on her relationships with her husband, mother and children. I'm not a mom but a proud Auntie, so to imagine me in the place of Megan wasn't hard as...more
I became so emotionally invested in this book. This story is every mother's worst nightmare: Megan turns around in her own home and Emma is gone. For three years she's been looking for her child in every blonde little girl and it's putting a strain on her relationships with her husband, mother and children. I'm not a mom but a proud Auntie, so to imagine me in the place of Megan wasn't hard as...more
This is a powerful story about a woman’s desperate search for the daughter that disappeared two years earlier.
There are two stories here; one involving Megan and the search for her missing daughter. Her obsessiveness may be the destruction of her marriage and family. Meanwhile, there is Jack and Dottie, taking care of their young granddaughter Emmie and Dottie is suffering from dementia.
I really felt the pain that Megan was going through and the effect it had on her husband and two other daughte...more
There are two stories here; one involving Megan and the search for her missing daughter. Her obsessiveness may be the destruction of her marriage and family. Meanwhile, there is Jack and Dottie, taking care of their young granddaughter Emmie and Dottie is suffering from dementia.
I really felt the pain that Megan was going through and the effect it had on her husband and two other daughte...more
As a mother, this is your worst fear! To have your child disappear and have to continue living day to day. How would you do it? How would you go on if every time you turned around you thought you saw her?
This is what Megan suffers through. For years as her marriage and family crumble around her, she hangs on to the hope that Emma is out there.
Finding Emma is a heartbreaking story of a mother's journey of hope. I was captured by the emotion and depth of the characters from the beginning. And ro...more
This is what Megan suffers through. For years as her marriage and family crumble around her, she hangs on to the hope that Emma is out there.
Finding Emma is a heartbreaking story of a mother's journey of hope. I was captured by the emotion and depth of the characters from the beginning. And ro...more
I loved this book. It is a.parents worst nightmare to see your child one second and then the next they are gone. This story tugs at your heart. I couldn't put it down. I want to read more if tbis author.
So, I was thinking about this book last night when I couldn't fall asleep. I was trying to decide if I thought it was a mystery or not and I decided that it could've been a mystery if it wasn't so predictable. For the most part I kind of felt like I was reading a rated G book, excluding a couple of the arguments from Emma's parents. The dialogue, in my opinion, was too saccharin and that's what I disliked most about the book. I felt like "real" people did not talk like that in the real world, bu...more
Finding Emma treats the difficult subject of child kidnapping with heart and sensitivity. As a mother, I wasn't sure I wanted to read it, because of its subject matter, and I found the sections about Megan, Emma's mother, to be really sad.
Ironically, the sections about Emma living with her captors lighten the book. I don't want to give out spoilers, so let's just say that Jack and Dottie are not your typical kidnappers. I found myself caring about all the characters in this book and wanting to...more
Ironically, the sections about Emma living with her captors lighten the book. I don't want to give out spoilers, so let's just say that Jack and Dottie are not your typical kidnappers. I found myself caring about all the characters in this book and wanting to...more
I bought this book some time ago, but couldn't force myself to read it - Sometimes reading about the pain and horror inflicted on children is just too much to bear, so I put it away. This week I decided I could take a peak and settled in to read.
I'm so glad I did.
Finding Emma is a strongly written deeply emotional story about a topic every mother can understand. A book where there are no bad guys, but where bad things happen. Emotional, evocative and deeply touching, Finding Emma is all that I e...more
I'm so glad I did.
Finding Emma is a strongly written deeply emotional story about a topic every mother can understand. A book where there are no bad guys, but where bad things happen. Emotional, evocative and deeply touching, Finding Emma is all that I e...more
This story was every mother's nightmare. A mother of 3 daughters, turns her head for a moment and her 3 year old baby girl disappears. Of course, she is frantic. Her life has been changed. Her marriage is falling apart. Her other 2 daughters are feeling left out. And she can't give up on believing her daughter is still alive and will come home again.
After I finished the book, the author's comments said she was giving a large portion of her profits to the Missing Children's funds in our country....more
After I finished the book, the author's comments said she was giving a large portion of her profits to the Missing Children's funds in our country....more
I am a voracious reader, but it has been a long time since I picked up a novel that I was unable to put down. FINDING EMMA may be the most heart-wrenching and heart-warming book I have ever read. From the first page, the characters pulled me in and held me captive. Is there anything more heart breaking than losing a child? Emma’s family must struggle to go on after her disappearance, but it is tearing them apart. When Emma’s mother Megan believed she had found her daughter, I thought my heart w...more
Finding Emma deals with every parent's worst fear - the loss of a child. This book is actually two different stories woven together. The story of Jack and Dottie and their child Mary who ran away, and their relationship with their grandchild; and the story of Megan and Peter and their children and how their family gets torn apart when little Emma is abducted. The grief everybody experienced was heartbreaking to read. It was quite clever how the two stories came together in the end. This was a st...more
An intense roller coaster of emotions are invoked by this book. A very poignant story especially in light of media stories in the last few years. A missing child, the stuff of parents' nightmares and yet a gripping story which is sensitive to the real effects this can have on a family and a community.
In the aftermath of her daughter's abduction, a mother experiences feelings of incomprehensible loss, depths of guilt and irrational fear, all of which have savage effects on both her marriage and...more
In the aftermath of her daughter's abduction, a mother experiences feelings of incomprehensible loss, depths of guilt and irrational fear, all of which have savage effects on both her marriage and...more
It had a good premise but was poorly written and poorly proof-read. It had a number of grammatical inconsistencies and errors that disrupted the flow and was quite superficial with little character development. It came across quite shallow, the typical American stay at home Mom living a life of luxury, spending her time going for coffee, running around in her Jeep and taking overprotectiveness to the limit with her older children, and coping by shopping, eating junkfood, getting nails done etc....more
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Author of the new heart wrenching story "Finding Emma", Steena Holmes grew up in a small town in Canada and holds a Bachelors degree in Theology.
In 2012 she received the Indie Excellence Award. Holmes was inspired to write Finding Emma after experiencing a brief moment of horror when she’d thought her youngest daughter was missing.
She currently lives in Calgary with her husband and three daughter...more
More about Steena Holmes...
In 2012 she received the Indie Excellence Award. Holmes was inspired to write Finding Emma after experiencing a brief moment of horror when she’d thought her youngest daughter was missing.
She currently lives in Calgary with her husband and three daughter...more
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