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hazelalaska 's review for:
The Face on the Milk Carton
by Caroline B. Cooney
3.5
I didn’t love it as much as I did when I was younger, which I guess happens sometimes. I was always interested in learning what happens next, but I never did before because I only own the first one, and at that time I was not really using the library, and I just never continued on. I still do want to find out what happens but I am also on the fence about whether I really want to put a lot of time and effort into reading the rest because there are so many other series that I would like to read, and I felt that this book was just okay. I am also uncertain whether I will be keeping this one or donating it, because I’ve read it so many times and I don’t like it that much anymore. What I will do is get the second book from the library and see if I like it, if I don’t I will dnf the series and donate this one.
Spoilers!
I felt like Janie acted irrationally at times, like the angsty teenager she is. I never noticed it when I was younger, but after she hears the story from her parents about Hannah she cried with them and believes it, but then the next day she decides that they’re lying and that they did kidnap her. She never considered the fact that it might have been Hannah who kidnapped her, since according to her parents Hannah was the one who brought her there, until Reeves told her what Lizzie said. The only possibility that she considered was that her parents kidnapped her, even though she did not believe them to be capable of it, even though Hannah had been brainwashed by the cult and probably did not know right from wrong and did not understand what she was doing when she kidnapped Jennie from the New Jersey mall. Janie did not want to leave her parents and have another family, but she also did not try to come up with another explaination, like maybe Hannah had been traveling with her husband from the cult and broke away from him to visit her family and told him that his daughter was kidnapped. There could have been some other explainations for it, but she only thought about her parents.
Janie also believed she was a horrible daughter because she had traded her family for ice cream and then forgot them, but she was only 3 when it happened. I doubt she would have understood what was going on, especially because Hannah was so nice to her. And she doubts herself so much, even though she begins to have these very clear memories of another life, and being loved by another set of parents. And she internalizes everything so much that she was literally losing her mind. The majority of the book was Janie internalizing what she learned, not really looking for clues or a solution, which I didn’t really like.
At first, I felt like her relationship with Reeve seemed forced, and it sort of still does, but it has grown on me now.
I didn’t love it as much as I did when I was younger, which I guess happens sometimes. I was always interested in learning what happens next, but I never did before because I only own the first one, and at that time I was not really using the library, and I just never continued on. I still do want to find out what happens but I am also on the fence about whether I really want to put a lot of time and effort into reading the rest because there are so many other series that I would like to read, and I felt that this book was just okay. I am also uncertain whether I will be keeping this one or donating it, because I’ve read it so many times and I don’t like it that much anymore. What I will do is get the second book from the library and see if I like it, if I don’t I will dnf the series and donate this one.
Spoilers!
I felt like Janie acted irrationally at times, like the angsty teenager she is. I never noticed it when I was younger, but after she hears the story from her parents about Hannah she cried with them and believes it, but then the next day she decides that they’re lying and that they did kidnap her. She never considered the fact that it might have been Hannah who kidnapped her, since according to her parents Hannah was the one who brought her there, until Reeves told her what Lizzie said. The only possibility that she considered was that her parents kidnapped her, even though she did not believe them to be capable of it, even though Hannah had been brainwashed by the cult and probably did not know right from wrong and did not understand what she was doing when she kidnapped Jennie from the New Jersey mall. Janie did not want to leave her parents and have another family, but she also did not try to come up with another explaination, like maybe Hannah had been traveling with her husband from the cult and broke away from him to visit her family and told him that his daughter was kidnapped. There could have been some other explainations for it, but she only thought about her parents.
Janie also believed she was a horrible daughter because she had traded her family for ice cream and then forgot them, but she was only 3 when it happened. I doubt she would have understood what was going on, especially because Hannah was so nice to her. And she doubts herself so much, even though she begins to have these very clear memories of another life, and being loved by another set of parents. And she internalizes everything so much that she was literally losing her mind. The majority of the book was Janie internalizing what she learned, not really looking for clues or a solution, which I didn’t really like.
At first, I felt like her relationship with Reeve seemed forced, and it sort of still does, but it has grown on me now.