Louise Plummer (1)

Mira Kent seems to have it all, a loving mother, a grandmother who makes killer waffles, two best friends, Sarah and Dylan, and a budding romance with Dylan. What more could she want? Finding her daddy. She has not seen him since she was three, and her mother and grandmother evade her questions about him. She discovers a photo album containing pictures of her with her father. She also finds her parents’ marriage certificate and is shocked to learn her father’s real name and that her mother and grandmother have been lying to her all these years. It doesn’t dawn on her that they may have been avoiding the questions for very good reasons. After she, Sarah, and Dylan track down information about her dad, her friends urge her to be cautious after she emails him and they plan to meet. Mira does not make the connection when frightening and bizarre events occur: her dog is cruelly murdered and their neighbor sees a strange man with a ski mask skulking around the house at night. Even after her mother and grandmother are viciously attacked, Mira refuses to see the coincidence and insists on keeping the appointment with her father at the airport. This flaw strains credulity in the book. The character development is good and the climax keeps the pages turning. Give this book to readers who love scary thrillers and they will probably overlook Mira’s naïveté about finding her daddy.… (altro)

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I really couldn't get into this book. It was all right, I guess, but Sus5an was so naive I wanted to slap her. She was eighteen, but she seemed as young as twelve sometimes. And I don't understand why her family wasn't angry with her at the end, seeing as how she had stupidly given her uncle (a known thief and n'er-do-well) access to her aunt's apartment and he burglarized the place as a result. Were teen girls really this trusting back in the eighties? Is it just my jaded twenty-first century viewpoint?… (altro)