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3.86 AVERAGE
Fantastic read! When I got a chance to read I didn’t want to put it down!
The end was not quite what I was expecting but I absolutely loved this book!
Would highly recommend it!
What a horrible journey to go through and to find out your life was a lie! I couldn’t imagine what Kim went through!
The end was not quite what I was expecting but I absolutely loved this book!
Would highly recommend it!
What a horrible journey to go through and to find out your life was a lie! I couldn’t imagine what Kim went through!
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
‘Mind if I join you?’
Kim Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. She’s taking a break between classes when she’s approached by a stranger. He shows her a photograph:
‘Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.’
He says that he is investigating the disappearance of Sammy Went from her home in Kentucky twenty-eight years earlier. He believes that Kim is Sammy. Kim believes that he is mistaken, but when she starts looking into her family background she finds that some questions can’t be easily answered. Kim has happy memories of her childhood with loving parents. But she can find no photographs of herself as a baby. Curious and in search of the truth, Kim travels to Manson, Kentucky to find out more about Sammy. What she discovers is a twisted mess of secrets, of conspiracy, involving a religious cult.
While some aspects of this story are predictable, there are a few twists which I did not expect. Those twists kept me turning the pages and kept me in suspense until very close to the end of the novel. This is Mr White’s debut novel. I hope that it is the first of many.
Note: My thanks to NetGalley and Hachette Australia for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
Kim Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. She’s taking a break between classes when she’s approached by a stranger. He shows her a photograph:
‘Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.’
He says that he is investigating the disappearance of Sammy Went from her home in Kentucky twenty-eight years earlier. He believes that Kim is Sammy. Kim believes that he is mistaken, but when she starts looking into her family background she finds that some questions can’t be easily answered. Kim has happy memories of her childhood with loving parents. But she can find no photographs of herself as a baby. Curious and in search of the truth, Kim travels to Manson, Kentucky to find out more about Sammy. What she discovers is a twisted mess of secrets, of conspiracy, involving a religious cult.
While some aspects of this story are predictable, there are a few twists which I did not expect. Those twists kept me turning the pages and kept me in suspense until very close to the end of the novel. This is Mr White’s debut novel. I hope that it is the first of many.
Note: My thanks to NetGalley and Hachette Australia for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
Kimberly Leamy (Kim) was between classes at Northampton Community TAFE where she taught photography when she was approached by a man named James Finn. James showed Kim a photo of a young girl and asked her did the girl look familiar to her. As Kim studied the picture, James proceeded to tell her the girl in the photo was Sammy Went who went missing three days after the photo was taken, she was only two years old at the time.
Kim had no idea her life was about to turn upside down after she’d talked to James. She had so many questions and she was unsure of where to start to find the answers. Her mind was reeling with so many thoughts running through it and none of it was making much sense.
The Nowhere Child by Aussie author Christian White was one hell of a book, particularly seeing as it’s a debut novel. I love it when a book grabs my attention right from the start and that’s precisely what this book did and held my attention to the very last page. Oh, and how about that twist that I’m certain most readers didn’t see coming. A brilliant psychological thriller that I thoroughly loved. Highly recommended.
Kim had no idea her life was about to turn upside down after she’d talked to James. She had so many questions and she was unsure of where to start to find the answers. Her mind was reeling with so many thoughts running through it and none of it was making much sense.
The Nowhere Child by Aussie author Christian White was one hell of a book, particularly seeing as it’s a debut novel. I love it when a book grabs my attention right from the start and that’s precisely what this book did and held my attention to the very last page. Oh, and how about that twist that I’m certain most readers didn’t see coming. A brilliant psychological thriller that I thoroughly loved. Highly recommended.
Had my attention steadily and really enjoyed it up until the last few pages. UGH! Also don’t read if you really dislike snakes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder