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jbarr5's review against another edition
3.0
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Love hearing about the monkey bread!
Beth is registering the family at the hotel and her younger son has at the same time gone missing. Someone must've taken him while the older child looked on.
The police canvas inside and out and can't locate the child. The things that go through her mind as to what could be happening to Ben...
Her husband Pat Cappadora is beside himself also. She was at the hotel for a reunion.
She is just going through the motions of life when 9 years later she thinks she really has seen Ben. She knew it looked exactly what he would've looked like...
They find his knapsack a few years later and again post his picture in the paper in hopes someone has seen him.
She gets involved with her camera again and a boy who mows lawns stops by and she knows it's her son. She shows her husband the pictures of the boy who lives just a few blocks away.
Therapy sessions don't always help but talking to other friends who were there, does. Faith, keep the faith that it will all work out in the end...
Love hearing about the monkey bread!
Beth is registering the family at the hotel and her younger son has at the same time gone missing. Someone must've taken him while the older child looked on.
The police canvas inside and out and can't locate the child. The things that go through her mind as to what could be happening to Ben...
Her husband Pat Cappadora is beside himself also. She was at the hotel for a reunion.
She is just going through the motions of life when 9 years later she thinks she really has seen Ben. She knew it looked exactly what he would've looked like...
They find his knapsack a few years later and again post his picture in the paper in hopes someone has seen him.
She gets involved with her camera again and a boy who mows lawns stops by and she knows it's her son. She shows her husband the pictures of the boy who lives just a few blocks away.
Therapy sessions don't always help but talking to other friends who were there, does. Faith, keep the faith that it will all work out in the end...
inthelunaseas's review against another edition
3.0
It was fine until Ben/Sam was found and it started to peter out.
The trailer for the film is something that is seered into my brain, and I didn't even realise until I watched it (the trailer) while reading this... specifically the line, 'people lose them!'
Beth is a difficult main character to like, but something about her feels very real. Her own mini-catatonia can be expected after Ben is kidnapped (and reminds me of my own mother in some ways), but her character flounders once he's brought back into the fold. At times I found my eyes glazing over. I simply didn't care for Beth and Sam's relationship.
I'd have actually loved to explore her and Vincent's relationship more. There was so much potential here that wasn't explored. Did Vincent ever admit to letting go of Ben's hand, could Beth forgive him for that- and let him know he was forgiven.
Sam deciding to live with the Cappadora's again at the end felt like a cheap shot. What a kick in the teeth to George. Some more time to try the split time between them would have been better.
The trailer for the film is something that is seered into my brain, and I didn't even realise until I watched it (the trailer) while reading this... specifically the line, 'people lose them!'
Beth is a difficult main character to like, but something about her feels very real. Her own mini-catatonia can be expected after Ben is kidnapped (and reminds me of my own mother in some ways), but her character flounders once he's brought back into the fold. At times I found my eyes glazing over. I simply didn't care for Beth and Sam's relationship.
I'd have actually loved to explore her and Vincent's relationship more. There was so much potential here that wasn't explored. Did Vincent ever admit to letting go of Ben's hand, could Beth forgive him for that- and let him know he was forgiven.
Sam deciding to live with the Cappadora's again at the end felt like a cheap shot. What a kick in the teeth to George. Some more time to try the split time between them would have been better.
bpelle0207's review against another edition
Did not finish. Could not finish. Could barely begin.
anemone42's review against another edition
5.0
This book! I want to hug it and give it a cookie and brush its hair. A story about how a family collapses and survives after one of their children is kidnapped. The genius of it, to me, is in switching narrators halfway through and letting Reese, the older brother of the kidnapped Ben, tell us what happened, and what is still happening. I liked Beth, but sometimes I wanted to shake her. I adored Reese.
proseandpostre's review against another edition
3.0
Opened my eyes to what happens after something this difficult takes place in peoples homes and lives. Life is no fairy tale. Glad I read it :)
lunaseassecondaccount's review against another edition
3.0
It was fine until Ben/Sam was found and it started to peter out.
The trailer for the film is something that is seered into my brain, and I didn't even realise until I watched it (the trailer) while reading this... specifically the line, 'people lose them!'
Beth is a difficult main character to like, but something about her feels very real. Her own mini-catatonia can be expected after Ben is kidnapped (and reminds me of my own mother in some ways), but her character flounders once he's brought back into the fold. At times I found my eyes glazing over. I simply didn't care for Beth and Sam's relationship.
I'd have actually loved to explore her and Vincent's relationship more. There was so much potential here that wasn't explored. Did Vincent ever admit to letting go of Ben's hand, could Beth forgive him for that- and let him know he was forgiven.
Sam deciding to live with the Cappadora's again at the end felt like a cheap shot. What a kick in the teeth to George. Some more time to try the split time between them would have been better.
The trailer for the film is something that is seered into my brain, and I didn't even realise until I watched it (the trailer) while reading this... specifically the line, 'people lose them!'
Beth is a difficult main character to like, but something about her feels very real. Her own mini-catatonia can be expected after Ben is kidnapped (and reminds me of my own mother in some ways), but her character flounders once he's brought back into the fold. At times I found my eyes glazing over. I simply didn't care for Beth and Sam's relationship.
I'd have actually loved to explore her and Vincent's relationship more. There was so much potential here that wasn't explored. Did Vincent ever admit to letting go of Ben's hand, could Beth forgive him for that- and let him know he was forgiven.
Sam deciding to live with the Cappadora's again at the end felt like a cheap shot. What a kick in the teeth to George. Some more time to try the split time between them would have been better.
labtracks's review against another edition
4.0
As a new parent this was somewhat difficult to read. A heart tugging novel about a child gone missing and carrying on (or going through the motions) of living afterwards as well as coping with the unknown. The adjustments to loss, the adjustments to found and the personal hell self-imposed emotional abuse when a family doesn't stay perfect and adjust "appropriately" after going through the unbelievable.
justjoel's review against another edition
3.0
What happens to a family when a child goes missing? Interesting premise, but there was much left unexplored here. The mother was an unsympathetic character and the father a one-dimensional caricature. The older brother was mildly interesting. I found myself caring more about the missing child than I did any of the other characters.
Plot was a lot on set-up and not much on delivery, relying on coincidence and unbelievable situations to play out. Lots of questions and loose ends, and no answers. Good as a character study, not so great as a novel.
Plot was a lot on set-up and not much on delivery, relying on coincidence and unbelievable situations to play out. Lots of questions and loose ends, and no answers. Good as a character study, not so great as a novel.
annlee0110's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
esmemazzeo's review against another edition
emotional
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0