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The Daughter
The Daughter
Author: Jane Shemilt
ISBN-13: 9780062320476
ISBN-10: 0062320475
Publication Date: 3/3/2015
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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3 stars, based on 23 ratings
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
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4 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed The Daughter on + 11 more book reviews
This book was just bleh....I was very much let down by the ending.
junie avatar reviewed The Daughter on + 630 more book reviews
How could I hate a book but intrigued enough to keep reading? I had to know how it ended, so I skimmed the many boring parts

Jenny and Ted, two affluent doctors, their twin sons Theo and Ed and daughter Naomi had it all until one night Naomi didn't come home.

I disliked the characters, they were shallow and pathetic, the daughter was deplorable and the chapters were total confusion, each chapter is a different time period in the search for Naomi, and it did not flow well.

As for the end.....unbelievable, Inconceivable and unimaginable.

Don't waste your time.
reviewed The Daughter on + 624 more book reviews
Mildly suspenseful story about problems in an affluent family. The ending is surprising. This book can keep you engaged on a long train ride, but it's nothing to write home about.
MKSbooklady avatar reviewed The Daughter on + 948 more book reviews
Other reviewers didn't like this book very much. I found it hard to put down, in a way. I wanted to know the end. Even after reading the end, I'm not sure i know it. A parent, especially a mother will find parts of this hard to read, painful maybe. 90% was believable, some I did't quite buy. You judge for yourself, I can't explain without giving some away. I guess the 'take away' from this story is we don't really know our teenage/grown children as much as we should, as much as we think we do. Life gets in the way, jobs, etc. We think we're paying attention but we're not.