It's late so I'm off to bed but need to get this post up. I've said it before but having a Jodi Picoult book in my house is like having a bag of candy corn hidden in the closet. No matter how hard I try to ignore it I just can't keep myself from opening it up and devouring it.. and I always feel worse for doing it.
This is yet another of Picoult's 'mom in distress...strong woman, weak husband.. terrible heartwrenching problem... ends in a trial...' stories. This time the main character Delia, a search and rescue worker, finds out that her mom didn't die when she was 4, no her father kidnapped her and took her across the country and lied to her about what really happened. The law catches up with dad, he goes to trial but, guess what, he really did have a good reason for taking her. Yeah, it's what you think it is, mom's boyfriend was abusing her. But he couldn't tell anyone about it back then because that was the 1970s and dad's didn't have rights to their kids. That theory kind of works, except instead of reporting the creep's behavior to the authorities he skips town with his little girl.
Anyway, it kept me interested and reading, but I pinky-swear promise that I'll try my very hardest to stay away from her books for a little while..
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