The Other Mother: A wickedly honest parenting tale for every kind of family

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Sort of like Invasion of the Body Snatchers but that's not real, Michael concludes, so it has to be an abduction or kidnapping of some kind. Thanks to Miranda Rijks, Inkubator Books, Dreamscape Media and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review* Daphne married, had a baby, and had Postpartum symptoms that caused her to not be happy and have thoughts of harming the baby. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend was the 2014 Dolly Gray Award winner and was nominated for a 2017 Nutmeg Award in Connecticut. Matthew was also awarded first prize in 2016 and second prize in 2017 in the Magazine/Humorous Column category by the CT Society of Professional Journalists. This book brings up the lengths that people go to for the people they love, and how while actions may be rooted in good intentions, they don't always end up well. Each of the characters in the story have love in their heart, even if it doesn't necessarily show. And I have to admit, that this was one of the best portrayals of addiction recovery that I've ever seen. It touches on some heavy issues, such as homophobia, estrangement, death, and grief, but it's done in an extraordinarily sensitive way.

I'm still pleased when my request was approved because even after I started reading it, I was intrigued though after I finished it, I can firmly say this book belongs in the YA category.What is revealed causes a tectonic shift in his life as his Grandfather tells him that Jenry’s father was never really part of the equation and what he should be asking about is his father’s sister, Juliet. A woman who was Jenry’s other mother. So to recap: Lesbian couple, donor brother, and a whole lotta family secrets that all start to bubble to the surface. I think the writing was very good and the flow was a bit off here and there. I had to re-read a few paragraphs and sentences a few times to just make sure I understood where things were going. This book is so heartbreaking at times. You get to see how Michael's relationship with his mother has changed. You also get to see what was going on with his relationship with his father before he passed too. There's a lot of missing puzzle pieces that don't make sense until you get to the end of the book. I don’t like books whose twists rely on an under-developed character we don’t really know or care much about.

Time is running out. Can Jane find Florrie and uncover the truth whilst saving her own family before it's too late?

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Carol Goodman hooked me years ago with her debut, THE LAKE OF DEAD LANGUAGES, about a girls' boarding school and the unsavory things going on there. And then I was mesmerized by THE GHOST ORCHID and still have images from that book lodged in my mind. So when THE OTHER MOTHER (William Morrow, March 27 2018) came to my attention, I knew I had to read it.

Then, to her utter dismay, Jane finds incriminating evidence in her own home, evidence that is clearly linked to Florrie. She starts to doubt everyone around her, even her own family.......Now, could one of them be implicated in Florrie’s disappearance? and why?He wondered if time was a form of love, a way of dolling out affection in reasonable pieces, in parts small enough that you weren't aware of their size, and of what was slowly disappearing from your own form as you gave them away." There are so missing and some irrelevant pieces at the story but thankfully those irrelevant ones complete the puzzle at the end.

The author did a good job with Michael; I could hear his voice clearly in my head, imagine the way he interacted with his siblings, mother and classmates. His mother is married to a lazy louse, his stepfather, Glen. And Michael has behavioral issues. And a terrible secret. I'm trying to not give everything away, but you'd feel and see the connections + twists when you read this. Alternating between the past and the present with multiple POVs of each member of Jenry’s family as they tell the story.Perhaps her most distinctive trait is her "love". At first, the Beldam seems to genuinely love her victims, caring for them and giving them a world that they cannot afford in the real world. When she reverts to her true nature, the Beldam still claims to love her victims but in a much more perverted and disturbing way. Her love, thus, could be described as how as a parsimonious miser loves his gold or in a more serious and accurate comparison, how a child predator loves his/her victims, considering the ages of her victims. Whenever The Beldam prepares seemingly normal human food, it is shown that, unlike Coraline and the other father, she eats none of it. Either having an empty plate or having no plate at all, she prefers to keep her attention on Coraline. The only time she is ever shown eating in the book or film is when she eats a live cocoa beetle(s) or regular bugs. This could allude to her spider-like qualities, having an interest in bugs. It is worth noting that Coraline wears a small dragonfly hairpin, further alluding to the fact that the other mother thinks of her as food. THE OTHER MOTHER is not something I normally read. It actually was a bit bizarre, dark, and tense for me, but the twists and turns in the storyline and the pull-you-in writing kept me reading. Michael Parsons is a relatable, though not unlikable person. He knows he has problems. He speaks to a counselor on the regular.