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Something About Sophie (2013)

by Mary Kay McComas(Favorite Author)

3.17 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062084801 (ISBN13: 9780062084804)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

William Morrow Paperbacks

review 1: Pretty good. Sophie comes to town because some man leaves her property in his will. She doesn't know this man and assumes that it has something to do with her birth mother. Sophie was adopted and had wonderful, loving and supportive parents. The town is shaken up to see Sophie because she has red hair and reminds the townspeople of her mother. Will Sophie learn anything about her genetic family while she visits the country town? It is a good read to find out.
review 2: This was an advanced reader's copy I received from the publisher (William Morrow). Of course by the time I'm writing this, the book has already been out, but that just means you can go read it. (I should note that I don't receive any kind of incentive or compensation from anyone for any of t... morehe ARCs I review.) Anyway- this book was far outside the kind of novels I typically read, but I found it rather enjoyable even so. The main character (Sophie, an adopted young woman) travels to a small town at the request of a dying old man to hear his last words, but he dies before telling her. She then discovers that he left her something in his will - which is odd, since she's never met the man before in her life. She soon figures out that he knew something about her birth mother, but has no idea what. From then on, she's on the hunt for answers- both about her adoption and the murders that have started popping up in town. Add a heavy helping of romantic interest and you have Something About Sophie. It was definitely more about family and romance than murder mystery, but if that's the genre you love, this book will be a good edition to your library. The one thing that stood out as bothersome to me was how quickly Sophie went from "I know I'm adopted, but that's fine. My parents love me and I don't need to find my birth parents- I must have been made from love, and that's all I need or want to know" to "Everything MUST be about my birth mother and I MUST find out everything!"I'm not adopted, so I can't say I have first-hand experience with this. There are a few people close to me who are adopted, and I haven't ever noticed this kind of instant shift in their thought process. I'm thinking Sophie was really trying to convince herself that she didn't want to know about the people who gave her up, and when she had a lead, she stopped trying to bury her feelings. Either that, or that part just got too rushed when McComas was writing it. less

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