![]() This is Here's the scoop: This will be the most extraordinary and probably one of the most memorable books you'll read for a long time. It is so masterfully written that you could simply close your eyes and point on any given page, and you'll land at a beautiful turn of phrase or description. I predict it will be one of the Top Best Books of 2011. I suggest going right away to buy your hard copy, first edition because you'll want it in your personal library. Here's the scoop: This will be the most extraordinary and probably one of the most memorable books you'll read for a long time. Sure, it inspired some touching moments, but they were far and few in between.more No doubt some will think the writing style was breathtaking and unique and all that shizz, but to me it just came off as disjointed and wayyy too confusing. But the execution left me feeling very bleh-and hella conflicted. When I read the summary once the book was available on Netgalley, I went: OMG I NEED TO READ THIS BOOK! And honestly? I still think that the story of this book is phenomenal. Sure, it inspired some touching moments, but they were fa This book is really difficult for me to rate. This book is really difficult for me to rate. You don't get to see how Emmy would respond to reuniting with her beloved Baby after 16 years. You don't get to see Sophie confront her Mother about her lies. All this build up with the characters and it goes. I started skipping her chapters towards the end because nothing was happening.Īlso everything feels unfinished and unresolved. It's just a bit of torture watching her ramble and lost soul it up. And her freefall wandering just gets dull after a while - since she is in the past and Sophie is in the future, you know she doesn't find her baby. The fact that her baby is just called Baby, she doesn't even give her a name, is offputting and annoying. The entire way her sections are written is confusing and makes it hard to relate to her. ![]() It's a story about a girl who wanders aimlessly doing boring things with uncompelling people until she stumbles onto the truth in the last 20 pages.Īnd Emmy is an extremely hard character to get into. This isn't a story about a girl who finds out that she was kidnapped and rebuilds her life. So even though that is a MAJOR selling point of the book, you spend the entire thing reading to learn what you already know by reading the dust jacket. What is pitched isn't quite what you get.įirst of all, Sophie doesn't even find out that she was kidnapped until the very end. It sounded so good from the cover description and the reviews and that was the problem. This isn't a story about a girl who finds out that she was kidnapped and rebuilds he I found this book to be a giant disappointment. First of all, Sophie doesn't even find out that she was kidnapped until the very end. What is pitched isn't quite what you get. I found this book to be a giant disappointment. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. The riveting stories of Emmy and Sophie-alternating narratives of loss, imprisonment, and freedom regained-escalate with breathless suspense toward an unforgettable climax.more What she discovers changes her world forever. It is this loving family that gives Sophie the courage to look into her past. All that is left behind is a yellow sock.įourteen years later, Sophie, a homeschooled, reclusive teenage girl is forced to move frequently and abruptly from place to place, perpetually running from what her mother calls the "No Good." One afternoon, Sophie breaks the rules, ventures out, and meets Joey and his two aunts. Then one sunny day in September, Emmy takes a few fateful steps away from her baby and returns to find her missing. Trapped in a life with a husband she no longer loves, Baby is her only joy. Fourteen years later, Sophie, a homeschooled, reclusive teenage girl is forced to move f Emmy Rane is married at nineteen, a mother by twenty. All that is left behind is a yellow sock. ![]() Emmy Rane is married at nineteen, a mother by twenty.
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