Judith Kelman

The special ed teacher feels that one of her students, Pip, is a child that was abducted as a toddler. So crazily, this woman abducts Pip herself and takes him back to the island he was abducted from and enters a more horrifying life. I couldn't get into this woman meddling so much in another's life. I did like the things she talked about doing as a teacher to help special needs children, especially those with dyslexia.

This wasn't a bad book, but it wasn't great either. I became extremely impatient. The story dragged along, but the book was short enough I felt I could finish. The writing was OK but the pacing was somewhat slow. I liked some of the characters, but the main character, Erika, was kind of dim.

Don't waste your time!

good surprise mystery

Everyone on Rand's Island swore Eva Haskel was crazy. Ever since the well-publicized, unsolved kidnapping of her baby, she was a tragic figure on the tiny island off the Connecticut coast, wildly mourning the child who mysteriously vanished six long years ago. Then a shocking twist of fate and a very determined young woman enter Eva's dark world to bring her son home at last....