A review by afern_book_wanderer
Little Lovely Things by Maureen Joyce Connolly

5.0

Claire, a married mom of two young girls, is in training to be a radiologist. She is having a reaction to her recent vaccination, but needs to keep her schedule so she loads her two young daughters in the car and dashes out the door. On the way to drop the girls off her reactions becomes worse. She pulls over to a gas station with a bathroom at the back of the building. She leaves the car running with the AC on to keep the girls from overheating and keeps the bathroom door open with a view of the car before becoming sick. She passes out on the floor and when she comes to the bathroom door is closed. She makes it outside even though she is disoriented but the car is gone, and so are her daughters.
Throughout the rest of the book we understand what happened that morning and to the girls.

This book is a tale of heartbreak, a families worst nightmare come to pass, but also about fighting your way back from the brink of despair. The characters in the book are well developed and you gain an understanding of their pasts and where they are coming from.
I really enjoyed this book. It wasn’t an on-the-edge-of-your-seat kind of book until closer to the end, but the story lines were engaging and kept you interested and wanting to read more.