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BOOK REVIEW: Footsteps
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by Laura V. Hilton Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Footsteps
Genre: Inspirational/Contemporary/Suspense
Debra Patterson and her two young children, Chad and Lauren, have looked forward to spending the day together shopping for school clothes and having lunch at a special restaurant. Never in her wildest dreams could Debra imagine that her children would disappear when she turns her back for a few moments.
Desperate to find her children, Debra searches the entire mall, then notifies security and the police. When she finally goes home, dreading what she must tell her husband, Michael, she discovers that Michael has packed all his things and the children’s belongings and he is missing too.
Debra struggles to understand why her husband, the man who she’d loved, would do this horrible deed—especially when it becomes obvious that Michael had the whole thing planned to every minute detail for a long time.
Debra spends every moment hunting for her children, and pestering the authorities who are trying to help. She begins to turn to alcohol to fill her emptiness, but finds that rather than helping, it leaves a bigger mess. Will Debra be able to move past the bitterness and pain her husband has caused? Will she ever see her children again?
FOOTSTEPS is a mother’s nightmare come true. I was kind of afraid to read this book, thinking it’d be rather emotional, but it isn’t. The story is well-written, but I had a hard time understanding and connecting with Debra. In a way, she seems too matter of fact, too under control to have faced the tragedies she faces in this book. I think if we could experience more of the anger and pain she feels, it be easier to relate.
Still, the storyline is gripping, and it held my interest from the first page. I read the book through in one sitting, and I hoped Debra would be able to find her children—although I didn’t doubt she’d manage just fine even if she didn’t. Pick up FOOTSTEPS today for a compelling read. $12.95. 362 pages.
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