Jill's review
The Year of Fog
by Michelle Richmond (Goodreads author!)
I am an audible charter member, and I get artwork. Perhaps just a glitch?
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Jill's review
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond (Goodreads author!)
Jill's review
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** spoiler alert **
This cover looks like Kim Basinger starring in a made-for-tv movie on lifetime.
I enjoyed the book for the first 3/4. The ending was a tv movie-of-the-week mess.
What I admired in the book was Richmond's description of loss and grieving. It was all very believable an wrenching, and though it went on for 400 pages, I really didn't get irritated or tired of rehashing the characters' shared devastation.
What I had a problem with is that they found the kid in part because of Abby's hypnosis and some ridiculous good luck. Come ON people--these things don't happen. This is not the x-files. We live in the real world--where children go missing, are not found, and we don't have an epiphany while under some hypnotic spell.
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OH! I woke up this morning with this thought: Why didn't the damn mother take a lie-detector test (like all the other characters did)? Couldn't we have saved all the drama and just ended it there?
I enjoyed the book for the first 3/4. The ending was a tv movie-of-the-week mess.
What I admired in the book was Richmond's description of loss and grieving. It was all very believable an wrenching, and though it went on for 400 pages, I really didn't get irritated or tired of rehashing the characters' shared devastation.
What I had a problem with is that they found the kid in part because of Abby's hypnosis and some ridiculous good luck. Come ON people--these things don't happen. This is not the x-files. We live in the real world--where children go missing, are not found, and we don't have an epiphany while under some hypnotic spell.
******
OH! I woke up this morning with this thought: Why didn't the damn mother take a lie-detector test (like all the other characters did)? Couldn't we have saved all the drama and just ended it there?
I am an audible charter member, and I get artwork. Perhaps just a glitch?
It would make sense that I am glitched. I'm always a glitch when it comes to the computer.
