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A review by amydieg
If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch
I won't give this book a star rating because I read so little of it.
I was really looking forward to this. Though I wasn't thrilled by the writing right away, I intended to read through anyway. However, within the first 20 or so pages of the book a social worker comes into play and she isn't the most positive character. Even though she knew she would be searching hours into the woods for abandoned children, she is wearing a tan suit and heels and has brought no law enforcement officer, only the estranged father. She also is completely surprised at how long it takes them to walk out of the forest even though she obviously walked INTO it. After all this I was still reading, but then they reached the road and the social worker's LEXUS. A LEXUS? REALLY? She was also surprised to have one of the kids throw up, and as the daughter of a social worker I can assure you this shouldn't have made her more than flinch.
Because the plot revolves around these girls being abandoned by their mother and retrieved by the authorities, it just seemed careless to me that the author put so little thought into an important element of that. I was also afraid the negative tone might continue, when these people are usually actually underpaid, overburdened, and very dedicated. All and all I felt the author had signalled to me early on that the book just wouldn't be worth my time.
I was really looking forward to this. Though I wasn't thrilled by the writing right away, I intended to read through anyway. However, within the first 20 or so pages of the book a social worker comes into play and she isn't the most positive character. Even though she knew she would be searching hours into the woods for abandoned children, she is wearing a tan suit and heels and has brought no law enforcement officer, only the estranged father. She also is completely surprised at how long it takes them to walk out of the forest even though she obviously walked INTO it. After all this I was still reading, but then they reached the road and the social worker's LEXUS. A LEXUS? REALLY? She was also surprised to have one of the kids throw up, and as the daughter of a social worker I can assure you this shouldn't have made her more than flinch.
Because the plot revolves around these girls being abandoned by their mother and retrieved by the authorities, it just seemed careless to me that the author put so little thought into an important element of that. I was also afraid the negative tone might continue, when these people are usually actually underpaid, overburdened, and very dedicated. All and all I felt the author had signalled to me early on that the book just wouldn't be worth my time.