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Herzstoß: Roman (2011)

by Joy Fielding(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

344231206X (ISBN13: 9783442312061)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Goldmann

review 1: Debated between a two and a three for this one. I read the reader's digest version of this one and I am not sure what was cut out. The RD version was pretty clean beyond a little bit on innuendo i could have done without. This book was okay but not great. I had a hard time with Marcy. I get that she has had a really rough life but cannot get past the fact that she essentially neglected one of her children just because she felt the other one needed her more. Even after Devon was gone. There was a bit of suspense toward the end but the rest of the book was way to slow moving to be a great suspense thriller. Also I found it a bit ant-iclimatic.
review 2: This was the first book I've read by Joy Fielding. I got it on audiobook, so I had the pleasure of listen... moreing to the Irish accents, which was fun. At first glance, the book seemed like your standard run-of-the-mill mystery: Marcie Taggart thinks she sees her dead daughter outside of a Cafe in Cork, Ireland. Was it really her daughter? Or was Marcie just imagining things, wishing her daughter wasn't really dead? It doesn't take long for the reader to realize that Marcie will spend the rest of her vacation searching for the girl who looked like her daughter. Along the way, she meets some interesting strangers, some friends, some foes, and eventually gets caught up in some things way over her head. This book isn't just about a woman's search for her daughter, though. It's about a search for herself as well. We learn about what it was like for her growing up with a mentally ill mother and then having to deal with it all over again with her daughter. This was a journey of self discovery and recovery for Marcie. The question is, What will it take for her to get there? less

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