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Svetlana Lisova lady_lisova — That’s it! I think I’m done with Mary Higgins Clark. Someone beg her to retire! I have read quite a few of her books (and honestly can never remember which ones I’ve read and which I haven’t) and while I usually find them at least 3 star worthy she does annoy me. Many times you can figure out “who done it” before you’re even halfway through the story, so her plots are kind of obvious. Still, the books tend to be a semi-enjoyable ride other then the annoying fact that everyone in her books lives some sort of indulgent, wealthy lifestyle and they’re all kind of flat characters without a lot of depth. The main character, regardless of her circumstances of life, does things like through on her cashmere sweater and pearl necklace to have a simple dinner at home alone. These little things, they grate on my nerves. I try to remind myself that the author is older and perhaps she’s writing about an unrealistic way of life because it represents the ideals of her time. The annoyance of her characters not having much depth and their annoying ways of life take away from the books some. This book had all the usual annoyances but had completely lost me by around page 70. I could put up with the usual flat characters and their well-off lifestyles; that’s nothing new. I was able to swallow everyone believing the main character, Zan, had orchestrated the kidnapping of her own son two years before because of a new picture coming to light that shows someone in the distance that looks like her taking him. What I could not believe and ended up infuriating me to the point that I wanted to quit reading was that even Zan questions herself. There is a character that has spent two years trying every resource she could access to try to find her darling little boy, that knew she had been somewhere else when he had been kidnapped, and as soon as the pictures come out and people start doubting her she starts wondering if maybe she did kidnap him and if so then what did she do with him? I’m sorry, but I just can’t believe that a mother that hasn’t had a history of mental illness, substance abuse, or anything like that (although Zan did have times she couldn’t remember after her parents’ deaths, but honestly AFTER a time of great tragedy there’s parts of the time period that are a blur for a lot of people), she’s just not going to randomly think she did one thing and really kidnapped her son. I could have gone along with the ride, put up with everyone in the book believing that she must have been the kidnapper but I just can’t believe that an innocent mother that was positive of where she had been would suddenly start believing that maybe she really did do it. That was the point where I felt the book was completely unrealistic and questioned why I should keep reading it. I did keep reading it though because I’m a stickler for finishing a book. I didn’t read it closely though, I sort of skimmed through it so I didn’t absorb a whole lot of the information. I think that is the reason I didn’t see the real villain coming. I was surprised who was really behind the kidnapping. There was no satisfaction in the surprise though because I still don’t really understand why the villain planned and put into action the kidnapping. This grand, elaborate scheme and the book ends with me wondering why in the world that person would do all that. There is a paragraph that is intended to explain the motivation, but it feels more like a slapped on reasoning. Kind of like the mastermind and the details of the crime were revealed with an almost flourish and as an afterthought a few sentences were thrown in to give a motive. The motive might has well have been “because I can” because it makes about as much sense.