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Sarah N. (Corte Madera, CA)
I am still looking...
Where You Can Find Me by Sheri Joseph is a great idea, but I found it confusing at times. At least four times while reading the book, I found myself going back to see if I had missed a page because what I was reading didn't make sense. I also found the plot line disturbing as a parent, yet I couldn't put the book down. I did read it and I did want to know how it ended. I did like most of the characters.
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Carol N. (San Jose, CA)
Where You Can Find Me
A dark, incandescent novel that covers the Vincent family's struggle to return to their life together after having experienced the horrific kidnapping of 14 year old Caleb. Seeking sanctuary from the throes of the incident and the media, the family, sans the father, flees to Grandma's Cloud Forest Retreat in Costa Rica. Life in Costa Rica is not as a quiet and unassuming as expected.
Not for the faint of heart, this book contains some pretty explicit pedophile and perverted actions featuring underage children. An emotionally complex story that stays with the reader well after having turned that last page. If you don't mind going to the dark corners of your soul - this book is for you, As for this reviewer, I wish I had not gone there. This heavy duty, sad read was not easy to experience.
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Kimberly H. (Stamford, CT)
Where You Will Find Me
Wonderful writing although a bit disjointed at times and too long. As much as it seems Caleb (main character) may come out of his major ordeal, I felt it left too many unknowns about the characters. Unbelievable at times but certainly readable and interesting approach on the subject matter.
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Judy M. (East Haven, CT)
Where You Can Find Me
I was drawn into the story immediately, but found that when I was 3/4 done with the book I gave up. I had expected to have the story be more about Caleb, his experience and the effect this had on the family. Although I believe that was what this book was intending to be - I missed it. I was disinterested in Marlene, Lowell and most of the characters ... and felt that it went on & on never giving me what I wanted in a read. Part of me feels that I just missed the whole point of the book, and the other part was never drawn in further to are.
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Dawn C. (Meridian, ID)
Where Can You Find Me by Sheri Joseph
This book takes an all too familiar from the headlines today and turns it into a good novel. An 11 year old gets snatched after his birthday and is not found for 3 years. The boys parents try desperately to find him, and when they get him returned the mother runs away with him to Costa Rica because of the press. It is a good story, but gets slow in spots, and the plot seems to fizzle some, but all-in-all I enjoyed this novel.
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Christine B. (Scottsdale, AZ)
Where You Can Find Me
This book although about young Caleb who is reunited with his family after 3 years, is really also the story of his sister Lark who is gone "missing" in another sense. Her brother's abduction has left her lost and alone amid her family's struggles. I found this aspect of the book the most interesting because Caleb's abduction and what happened to him are left fairly ambiguous and wanting. His parent's relationship with all their entanglements really distract from the story. I am glad I read it and I think it would generate good discussion.
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Michelle N. (Hillsdale, NJ)
Just a bit slllooowww....
The premise of this book sounds great - kidnapped boy comes back; shattered family; move to Costa Rica ..yet I felt that the story moved so slowly it just didn't capture my interest - I had to force myself to continue reading until the end, and it never really pulled me in. The characters are just okay - the mother, Marlene, seems underdeveloped, you never really get a sense of her, the chapters with the sister, Lark, are just dull. I really wanted to like it, because I thought the storyline sounded great, but it fell short of my expectations.
