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Look Again
by
Lisa Scottoline (Goodreads Author)
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops—the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But she’s a journalist and...more
Paperback, 373 pages
Published
February 9th 2010
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published April 14th 2009)
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As a a fan of the thriller genre I was really looking forward to reading this book. I had never read anything by Lisa Scottoline before either so I was also intrigued and excited; I like discovering new authors, and I wasn't disappointed.
Look 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 half of the book I couldn't put it down, and I couldn't turn the page fast enough to find ou...more
Look 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 half of the book I couldn't put it down, and I couldn't turn the page fast enough to find ou...more
Intrigued by the ethical premise but fell short in the unbelievable and predictable delivery. Title should be "Try Again". Legal and emotional thriller of an adoptive mom seeing an age progressed photo of her son on a post card and her efforts to discover if her worst fears are true.
Didn't hate it so much as didn't necessarily like it 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...more
Didn't hate it so much as didn't necessarily like it either.
Noticed some editing errors which for me is always supremely distracting especially in a less than engaging story.
***Spoiler Alert***
As for characters, I...more
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This is the second book by Lisa Scottoline ive read and just like Lady Killer is a first class read. The story goes of Ellen Gleeson a reporter and mother to young adopted son, Will. One day she is looking through the mail and comes across a have you seen this child card and notices the boy in the picture looks identical to Will. Her instincts tell her that it is just a coincidence and the adoption is completely legal but being a journalist she looks into. What she uncovers is alot more than wha...more
Ellen Gleeson has just gotten home and retrieved the mail. She was getting read to put the mail down when something in the pile caught her attention. It was one of those white postcards that says “Have you seen this child?” The similarities between the missing boy and her son, Will is uncanny. It was like Ellen was looking at a picture of Will but Ellen knew that couldn’t be true as her son is an only child. Well that is what the adoption agency told her. A few days later and Ellen still can’t g...more
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I just happened to come across this book at Target and decided to pick it up because the little line on the front "What would you do if the face in a missing child photo was your son?" caught my eye. It was a good book but didn't seem to have much depth. The chapters were short which kept the book moving quickly and always wondering what would happen next. However, it was basically just Ellen doing her own research and not a whole lot of interaction with other characters. I am just guessing here...more
This book was an extremely easy, fast-paced read. It's like a newer, more up-to-date version of King Solomon's judgement. Or at least that's what kept replaying in my head the more clues unraveled. Long story short, I found this book to be extremely interesting and worth the day it took me to read it. There's nothing complicated about this book. The plot is fairly simple to follow and the supporting characters are a little thin. It doesn't change the fact that it's interesting and will have ever...more
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I thought that this book was going to get a much higher rating,considering the rave reviews that it received. I was very disappointed after reading this, the characters were forgettable, the story was consistent but it was flopping from one thing to another. The only thing that was consistent was the fact that the author never lost focus on the plot but she added unecessary characters that affected the characters, that was a major flaw. Although it was intriguing that Ellen Gleeson had an adopte...more
This was the first Lisa Scottoline novel that I've read and if this one is any sort or testament to her talent for thrill writing, then I'll definitely be purchasing other copies of Lisa's books. I was glued to my seat while read this in one!
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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 right 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-too-convenient happy ending.
Randomly, this line bugg...more
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 right 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-too-convenient happy ending.
Randomly, this line bugg...more
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This book begins with an interesting premise. Ellen Gleeson,a journalist, is a single mother happily raising her 3-year-old adopted son. One day she receives one of those small flyers in the mail with a picture of a missing child. The child was kidnapped when he was one-year-old, but the picture is electronically progressed to show how he would look a the age of three. Ellen's son was a little over a year old when she adopted him and looks exactly like the child on the flyer.
Ellen immediately ta...more
Ellen immediately ta...more
Look Again
Lisa Scottoline
Fiction
A reporter (Ellen) finds a "missing child" card in the mail and the kid in the photo looks like her adopted son. Ellen tries to find out if it is for sure her son or not. Ellen digs too deep and finds her answer. She does not know how she will handle the whole situation.
One of the key motifs is "love" in the book. Ellen loves her son, Will, and her boss. Another key motif is "back-stab". Some of Ellen's reporter friends, "stab" her in the back and gets her in tro...more
Lisa Scottoline
Fiction
A reporter (Ellen) finds a "missing child" card in the mail and the kid in the photo looks like her adopted son. Ellen tries to find out if it is for sure her son or not. Ellen digs too deep and finds her answer. She does not know how she will handle the whole situation.
One of the key motifs is "love" in the book. Ellen loves her son, Will, and her boss. Another key motif is "back-stab". Some of Ellen's reporter friends, "stab" her in the back and gets her in tro...more
One again Scottoline writes a winning story. Here the main character is Ellen Gleeson, a reporter for a Philadelphia newspaper. A couple of years back, while writing a story, she came upon a very sick young boy in a hospital. Something about him drew her to him and she made enquiries. She ended up adopting him, and Will is now the center of her life.
There are cuts at the newspaper and Ellen is worried about her job. When she arrives home one day, she notes a white card with a photo of a missing...more
There are cuts at the newspaper and Ellen is worried about her job. When she arrives home one day, she notes a white card with a photo of a missing...more
A fast-paced book that, as a mom, struck me to the core.
Ellen Gleeson is a reporter raising a boy she adopted while doing a story on him for the paper. One day she sees his picture on a flyer "Have you seen me" and she begins to investigate whether her adopted son is the boy who was kidnapped.
The book moves quickly and the drama tugged at my heart strings. And it's a good thing, because aside from moving me as a mother - this book probably would have fallen completely flat. It felt to unrealisti...more
Ellen Gleeson is a reporter raising a boy she adopted while doing a story on him for the paper. One day she sees his picture on a flyer "Have you seen me" and she begins to investigate whether her adopted son is the boy who was kidnapped.
The book moves quickly and the drama tugged at my heart strings. And it's a good thing, because aside from moving me as a mother - this book probably would have fallen completely flat. It felt to unrealisti...more
It's a mystery how it happens; but no matter what is next on my reading list, other titles sneak in. Right now there are a ton of books awaiting my serious attention, but I mindlessly picked up Lisa Scottoline's LOOK AGAIN (2009) at the library recently. When I went to pick up my planned read, there it was. So once again I indulged my randomness.
Scanning the list of other titles, I realized I have read most, if not all, of Scottoline's work since I first discovered EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT, the...more
Scanning the list of other titles, I realized I have read most, if not all, of Scottoline's work since I first discovered EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT, the...more
What happens when you adopt a child and then see a photo of a missing child that looks identical to your child? In the book Ellen is a reporter who finds a missing photo of a child and tries to figure out if it is her son or not. Ellen tries to ignore the photo but it consumes her. She goes to Florida and tracks down the missing boys mom and dad. She gets samples of their DNA and waits for the testing results. In the mean time she uncovers a kidnapping plot and all the main characters are ended...more
I am the first to admit that I have not always been a fan of Lisa Scottoline's books. I know that readers love her, particularly in the Philly area, where she lives. Having the good fortune of meeting Ms. Scottoline a few years back, I know that she is unbelievably nice, even going so far as to hug her fans. However, to me, I just never thought her books were of substance. That is, until Look Again came along.
This is the story of Ellen Gleeson, an ordinary woman who came home from work one day a...more
This is the story of Ellen Gleeson, an ordinary woman who came home from work one day a...more
What would you do if one day , you woke up and saw a site of missing children and one of them happened to be the spitting image of your own son , the son you adopted all those years ago ?
Reporter Ellen , adopted her son Will when he was a few months old and now she is getting worried ? Is it just her journalistic suspicions rising or is it something more ?
Desperate to get to the bottom of this , Ellen starts to look into the adoption of Will and the story of the missing boy Timothy, are they th...more
Reporter Ellen , adopted her son Will when he was a few months old and now she is getting worried ? Is it just her journalistic suspicions rising or is it something more ?
Desperate to get to the bottom of this , Ellen starts to look into the adoption of Will and the story of the missing boy Timothy, are they th...more
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Look Again is every mothers nightmare. Imagine jumping through all the hoops of adopting a child. When that day finally comes that the child is fully yours you are... ecstatic beyond belief. (I have friends who have adopted - I have seen this first hand). This child becomes as much your own as if you had birthed him or her yourself. You know their every expression, their likes, dislikes, joys, and fears... and you love them so much you think your heart can hold no more...
Now imagine that somethi...more
Now imagine that somethi...more
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Is he Really Your Son?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were to see a picture of your son on a Missing Child ad? Well, in Look Again, written by Lisa Scottoline, is exactly about that. Reading this book was as exciting as riding a roller coaster. If you are into reading non-fiction books, than I would highly recommend this book for you. I think that this was such a great book, because it had many details, and there were some scenes where it really left you wondering what was...more
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were to see a picture of your son on a Missing Child ad? Well, in Look Again, written by Lisa Scottoline, is exactly about that. Reading this book was as exciting as riding a roller coaster. If you are into reading non-fiction books, than I would highly recommend this book for you. I think that this was such a great book, because it had many details, and there were some scenes where it really left you wondering what was...more
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I read this book on an airplane and it was perfect for airplane reading. Short sentences, short paragraphs, short chapters. In other words, not too much too think about. It wasn't bad, exactly-- it just wasn't very good. Trite, predictable, and the "twist" ending wasn't really a twist at all. I had hoped for better, although I don't know why. I think this book represented the author fairly well. Just another ok writer, but nothing special.
What I would have liked to see, what would have made a be...more
What I would have liked to see, what would have made a be...more
Look Again, by Lisa Scottoline, a-minus, Narrated by Mary Stuart Masterson, produced by Macmillan Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops - the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But she's a jour...more
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops - the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But she's a jour...more
Are you one of those people who looks at the faces in the ads for missing children? I am. So is Ellen Gleeson. Someday maybe I will recognize the face of a child in the neighbourhood and be instrumental in reuniting a child with his/her family. Never would I expect to see the face of my own child staring back at me. Ellen didn't expect it either, but there it was. The boy in the poster looked exactly like her son, Will. The reporter in her wouldn't let Ellen rest until she had explored the possi...more
I acquired this book at a book swap. In truth, I'm glad I didn't spend $14 on it.
"Look Again" was just WAY too much of a chick flick for me. I felt like I was watching one of those awful Lifetime original movies. All of the characters were basically cookie-cutter cut-outs. Ellen is a "strong," beautiful, single career woman. In fact, her last loser of a boyfriend had told her she was a "handful," but "a handful was the only woman worth handling" (p. 9). Her love interest, who also happens to be...more
"Look Again" was just WAY too much of a chick flick for me. I felt like I was watching one of those awful Lifetime original movies. All of the characters were basically cookie-cutter cut-outs. Ellen is a "strong," beautiful, single career woman. In fact, her last loser of a boyfriend had told her she was a "handful," but "a handful was the only woman worth handling" (p. 9). Her love interest, who also happens to be...more
Listened to this on CD--Read by Mary Stuart Masterson.
Ellen Gleason is a features journalist with a Philadelphia newspaper. Her world is rocked when she receives a missing child card in the mail and the child looks just like her adopted son, Will. Ellen starts investigating the circumstances of the abducted child, Timothy Braverman. Her investigation leads her along a sad trail of abduction, death and lies. Her worst fear is that Will is truly Timothy Braverman. Ellen takes steps to confirm her...more
Ellen Gleason is a features journalist with a Philadelphia newspaper. Her world is rocked when she receives a missing child card in the mail and the child looks just like her adopted son, Will. Ellen starts investigating the circumstances of the abducted child, Timothy Braverman. Her investigation leads her along a sad trail of abduction, death and lies. Her worst fear is that Will is truly Timothy Braverman. Ellen takes steps to confirm her...more
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline is the second book I have read by her. It’s about a Ellen, a journalist and single mother who thinks her adopted son looks a lot like the face of a missing child on a postcard she received in the mail. She becomes paranoid that neighbors may think she kidnapped him and is afraid she may lose him. Nevertheless, she can’t ignore the fact that her 3-yr.-old son, Will, looks like the missing kid, Timothy. She goes on a search for the truth to hopefully prove Will is not...more
This book portrayed a mother's love regardless of how you became a parent. Not only that, it had you asking yourself, would you, could you, make that call? There is a real emotional pull between doing what is right and NEVER wanting to give away your own child. I think that the way she goes about finding out the truth is a very real look at not wanting to show all your cards until you absolutely have to. Her reasons weren't completely selfish either, she clearly had the best interest of her chil...more
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