Well, I don't know what to say about this book. You can see from the cover that the author's mother disappeared as a child. What we find out is that her mother was kidnapped as a 3 year old, and she had no memory of it at all. She actually doesn't remember anything before the kidnapping. She was 3 years old when she was adopted, and she has no memory of the time before that.

This book sounds really interesting. The concept sounds like it would be great, and the overall story of the childhood of her mother was really interesting. However, the pacing and the descriptions took away from the story for me. I am not very artistic, and I don't like reading long descriptions of things in books. I know that it just my opinion, and other people really appreciate this part of a novel. I just happen to not like it. That is the only thing that kept this from being a 5 star book for me.

I can't go into everything I wanted to talk about with this book because it gives away all the mysteries that she is solving as you go through the story, so I'll just say, it's a heartbreaking story of secrecy and shame and family dynamics that just made me sad after I finished reading.