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platypus12 's review for:
The Face on the Milk Carton
by Caroline B. Cooney
This book had a fascinating premise but didn't pull through in terms of plot and character development.
There were so many opportunities for plot movement and growth (when she drives by her biological parents' house but doesn't go in, ect.) but instead Janie doesn't act. This would have been fine if Janie eventually developed to the point that she did act. But at the end of the novel it was her mother who contacted her biological parents and the only reason she even told her mother was because she accidentally dropped the letter and had no better option.
The major twist in the novel (that her "grandparents" had no idea she was kidnapped and she was instead kindapped by their daugther) was exposed way before the climax, adding to the lack of excitement.)
Instead of having an actual plot and actual character development, the novel consists mainly of Janie thinking (which would be fine if it wasn't the same thoughts the whole novel) and a boring romance.
There were so many opportunities for plot movement and growth (when she drives by her biological parents' house but doesn't go in, ect.) but instead Janie doesn't act. This would have been fine if Janie eventually developed to the point that she did act. But at the end of the novel it was her mother who contacted her biological parents and the only reason she even told her mother was because she accidentally dropped the letter and had no better option.
The major twist in the novel (that her "grandparents" had no idea she was kidnapped and she was instead kindapped by their daugther) was exposed way before the climax, adding to the lack of excitement.)
Instead of having an actual plot and actual character development, the novel consists mainly of Janie thinking (which would be fine if it wasn't the same thoughts the whole novel) and a boring romance.