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Nooit Vergeten (2011)

by Nicci Gerrard(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9022558401 (ISBN13: 9789022558409)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Boekerij

review 1: It's a long book and fairly predictable along the way. Child (over eighteen) goes missing, family fall apart, child comes back after seven or eight years. It's well written along the way and it's easy to have empathy for the family and the situation that they are in, so much so that when the son returns with little or no explanation as to why he disappeared or even where, it's hard to get annoyed. The author has built up that much of a connection between reader and family that you just feel tremendous relief. By that notion it's emotional, it will grip you, but after you've got over it, just like the parents you'll be asking why?!
review 2: I'm a big fan of Nicci French – a minor slump recently, but really loving the new Frieda Klein series – but I do strug... moregle a little with Nicci Gerrard’s solo efforts. I found her last one, The Winter House, unremittingly depressing and there were times I had a similar reaction to this one. Examining a family’s reaction to the unexpected disappearance of a child is fine, and she explores grief and loss exceptionally well, but I do like my books with a little more narrative drive. After almost giving up 100 pages in, I chose to continue, and I’m pleased I did. But don’t read this one expecting a thriller or you’ll be very disappointed. That said, as an exploration of people’s emotional reaction to loss and its effects on the family this book is excellent, and I did have a tear in my eye and lump in my throat at the end. less

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