Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Zondervan (2009), Edition: First Edition, 336 pages
Original publication date
2009-09-15
Description
Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment--and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen--Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
336 p.; 8.5 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member caroline123
First of all, I enjoy Christian fiction when well-written and engaging. I am over halfway through this book and I keep hoping it will get better. The main characters, Barbara Covington and her son Lance are on a mission to find their daughter and sister Emily, who disappears while enroute to a
The writing seems repetitive and overly simplistic and the characters do not engage me at all. It is a book I pick up and hope that I will begin to enjoy; however life is too short to read bad books and I feel I will abandon this one.
Terri Blackstock is a favorite of mine with her series "Restoration" and I thought this would also be great. Not so. I recommend the "Restoration" series by Blackstock highly. The characters were very engaging and real. I felt a real sense of caring and wanting to know what happened next and eagerly picked up the book to find out. Not the same here.
I do not see where there is much mention in the book of faith or God or Christianity as some readers have said, and I am over halfway through. Maybe that comes later on.
This one by Blackstock is a "miss" for me. I also have "Double Minds" by this author and I hope it is better. Not recommended.
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detox/rehab center. The interventionist is murdered and Emily is the prime suspect.The writing seems repetitive and overly simplistic and the characters do not engage me at all. It is a book I pick up and hope that I will begin to enjoy; however life is too short to read bad books and I feel I will abandon this one.
Terri Blackstock is a favorite of mine with her series "Restoration" and I thought this would also be great. Not so. I recommend the "Restoration" series by Blackstock highly. The characters were very engaging and real. I felt a real sense of caring and wanting to know what happened next and eagerly picked up the book to find out. Not the same here.
I do not see where there is much mention in the book of faith or God or Christianity as some readers have said, and I am over halfway through. Maybe that comes later on.
This one by Blackstock is a "miss" for me. I also have "Double Minds" by this author and I hope it is better. Not recommended.
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LibraryThing member MomsterBookworm
A single mother engages an interventionist to escort her drug addict daughter to a rehabilitation center. They never even get there as the interventionist is found murdered in her vehicle and the girl has gone missing. Is the teenage girl the perpetrator or a victim? This is the story of a mother's
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anguish through her child's dark journey of substance abuse. A widow's story of doubt and self-recrimination as to how she had 'failed' her children. Most of all, a story of a woman's strength in holding together her sanity, her faith, her family... A high-octane suspense thriller that grips the reader from the start and never lets go. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. 5 stars!!! Show Less
LibraryThing member olegalCA
Not one of my favourites by Blackstock because I felt that she didn't work hard enough to make us care about the drug-addicted daughter or explain the motivation of the mother but an interesting read. I don't know how she will address the underlying attraction between the mother and the cop
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LibraryThing member blmyers
very engaging and hard to put down...excellent character development.
LibraryThing member JenniferRobb
There is good suspense once the novel gets going, but it was tougher for me to like the main characters early in the novel. The "bad guy" kind of comes out of left field partway through the book too.
What I liked: Blackstock didn't glamorize the drug addict's life. She let us see how much the people
What I didn't like: Road Back Recovery's methods seem a bit off to me (based on Kent Harlan's visit there and what is recorded on the blog Barbara Covington reads); Barbara chooses the first rehab center that comes up on her search of Christian rehab centers--apparently without doing any further research into the treatment center--since she's paying big bucks to do this, one would think she'd want some assurance they had a decent treatment regimen; Lance doesn't listen to his mom and uses manipulative techniques to get her to give in to him--I'll justify the one where he calls Harlan to tattle on his mom when he thinks she's going to get herself into trouble, but others were not done for unselfish reasons;
What I liked: Blackstock didn't glamorize the drug addict's life. She let us see how much the people
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around the addict suffer as well as showing insight into what goes through the addict's mind; Barbara and Lance both seem to love Emily despite what she's put the family through; Lance is still able to talk to Harlan about God even with all that's happened; Emily reaches out to God and finds He is still there, waiting for her to come to him; What I didn't like: Road Back Recovery's methods seem a bit off to me (based on Kent Harlan's visit there and what is recorded on the blog Barbara Covington reads); Barbara chooses the first rehab center that comes up on her search of Christian rehab centers--apparently without doing any further research into the treatment center--since she's paying big bucks to do this, one would think she'd want some assurance they had a decent treatment regimen; Lance doesn't listen to his mom and uses manipulative techniques to get her to give in to him--I'll justify the one where he calls Harlan to tattle on his mom when he thinks she's going to get herself into trouble, but others were not done for unselfish reasons;
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LibraryThing member debs4jc
This thrilling read really kept my interest as I rooted for the mother to figure out what was happening to her daughter. The mother is Barbara and she is determined to find help for her daughter Emily. Emily has a drug problem and holding an intervention and then sending her to a treatment facility
The twists and turns of the story kept me riveted to the story, and I could relate to Barbara's intense need to help her child. All of the characters seemed realistic and relatable, and I liked the way that their relationships with one another played out. I would definitely recommend this one to fans of suspenseful yet family centered stories.
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seems to be Barbara's best chance to help her. So she confronts Emily and then sends her off on a plane with the counselor from the treatment facility. Except then the counselor turns up dead at the airport, and Emily is no where to be found. Barbara is devestated, but she is also determined to find her daughter and help her - no matter what. The twists and turns of the story kept me riveted to the story, and I could relate to Barbara's intense need to help her child. All of the characters seemed realistic and relatable, and I liked the way that their relationships with one another played out. I would definitely recommend this one to fans of suspenseful yet family centered stories.
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