Book Review: No Turning Back by Sheena Kamal
Published in 2020. Nora Watts is on her way back home to Canada when she’s stopped at the border by Canadian Border Police near Detroit. She’s not sure why but just as the questioning intensifies, the police are called to a different case. Now released, she heads for Toronto where her daughter lives. Years ago, she gave her daughter up for adoption and only recently established contact with her. She wants to see her before she dies and to warn her of the man who is after her.
There were plenty of plot issues in the beginning of this book that got filled in later but left me confused. I wasn’t at all sure what was going on or who Nora Watts was or if I should even care. The first problem is when she’s being questioned at the border. She’s a Canadian citizen but is being questioned intensely by Canadian Border Patrol. She thought it was because she had no luggage, but that doesn’t seem like a legitimate excuse to me. Later, it was revealed she was part Palestinian and may have been the real reason. Like it or not, she was probably profiled as a potential terrorist even though it wasn’t raised as a issue.
The next issue has to do with why she went to Detroit. She’d been a caretaker for her boss at the P.I. firm where she worked for a year when she up and left. The man was dying and had little time left, yet she went to Detroit where her father had died over a year before. Hardly made sense even later. Then she witnessed a shooting and leaves, knowing she was the actual target. How she knew that I don’t know. After that, she heads to Toronto to see her daughter whom she gave up for adoption after she was born. Knowing that someone had already tried to kill her, why would she lead them to her daughter?
From Toronto, Nora returns to Seattle. Her boss has already died and the people in the office are not happy with her and only one seemed concerned over the events in Detroit. After this part of the book was over, the story was less confusing and more on track. I finished it.
There were plenty of plot issues in the beginning of this book that got filled in later but left me confused. I wasn’t at all sure what was going on or who Nora Watts was or if I should even care. The first problem is when she’s being questioned at the border. She’s a Canadian citizen but is being questioned intensely by Canadian Border Patrol. She thought it was because she had no luggage, but that doesn’t seem like a legitimate excuse to me. Later, it was revealed she was part Palestinian and may have been the real reason. Like it or not, she was probably profiled as a potential terrorist even though it wasn’t raised as a issue.
The next issue has to do with why she went to Detroit. She’d been a caretaker for her boss at the P.I. firm where she worked for a year when she up and left. The man was dying and had little time left, yet she went to Detroit where her father had died over a year before. Hardly made sense even later. Then she witnessed a shooting and leaves, knowing she was the actual target. How she knew that I don’t know. After that, she heads to Toronto to see her daughter whom she gave up for adoption after she was born. Knowing that someone had already tried to kill her, why would she lead them to her daughter?
From Toronto, Nora returns to Seattle. Her boss has already died and the people in the office are not happy with her and only one seemed concerned over the events in Detroit. After this part of the book was over, the story was less confusing and more on track. I finished it.
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