Helpful Score: 3
I really enjoyed this book. Lisa Jackson is superb at this type of romantic suspense and this is one of her best, in my opinion. The characters are well developed and the story had me interested from the first page.
Helpful Score: 2
This is a remake of a book by Lisa called WISHES. It's about a gal who is given a young son by an attorney she no longer works for, when she's in the middle of moving out of the area.
It was good the first time, and quite a bit shorter. Now it's up to 500 pages, so I don't feel like reading it again.
It was good the first time, and quite a bit shorter. Now it's up to 500 pages, so I don't feel like reading it again.
Helpful Score: 1
Good characters, intriguing plot.
Helpful Score: 1
I HATE buying a book only to find out it's a "re-write" -- HOWEVER, Lisa Jackson has an opening page at the front of the book CLEARLY explaining that -- I was able to make my own decision whether to read it or not, knowing the situation. Clearly updated and longer than the original, it's not a bad effort!
Jackson is good at this type of romantic suspense. Kate Summers lost her family in a drunken accident - desperate to try again, she adopts a newborn under "sketchy circumstances". Years later, as so often in life, her actions catch up to her and her now teenage son.
Simply an entertaining read for a quiet night or two. Perhaps not her best, but still worthwhile if you enjoy the genre.
Jackson is good at this type of romantic suspense. Kate Summers lost her family in a drunken accident - desperate to try again, she adopts a newborn under "sketchy circumstances". Years later, as so often in life, her actions catch up to her and her now teenage son.
Simply an entertaining read for a quiet night or two. Perhaps not her best, but still worthwhile if you enjoy the genre.
In 1980 Kate Summers still grieves the deaths of her husband and daughter due to a drunken driver. When she is given a chance to adopt an infant, she does not have to think about her decision; Kate instantly agrees even with the stipulations that she must ask no questions, leave Boston immediately and tell everyone she birthed the child.
For the next fifteen years, Kate raises her beloved child in Hopewell, Oregon although she always looks over her shoulder in fear that someone will know the child she loves is not hers and the adoption was probably criminal. The moment of truth that always frightened her arrives when Deagan O'Roarke, an illegitimate offspring of a Boston Brahman, arrives from New England and becomes a friend of the single mom and her teenage son. He begins to fall in love with both and eventually admits Jon is his son. He insists he was drunk when his cousin Bibi Sullivan seduced him. Bibi's father Robert detesting his pathetic family seeks his grandson while the rest of the brood knows what his finding the teen means to their gold spoon lifestyle.
This is an exhilarating rewriting of the author's tale Wishes with the new version emphasizing the suspense while the original the romance. Kate is terrific as she behaves like the Running Scared man in Roy Orbison's song of the same title as she always expected someone to claim Jon as theirs. When he and the extended Sullivan family converge on the Pacific Northwest, Kate knows her nightmare has come true but it is even worse than her frightening dreams as she never expected her son to be in danger. Lisa Jackson converts her tale into a taut thriller.
For the next fifteen years, Kate raises her beloved child in Hopewell, Oregon although she always looks over her shoulder in fear that someone will know the child she loves is not hers and the adoption was probably criminal. The moment of truth that always frightened her arrives when Deagan O'Roarke, an illegitimate offspring of a Boston Brahman, arrives from New England and becomes a friend of the single mom and her teenage son. He begins to fall in love with both and eventually admits Jon is his son. He insists he was drunk when his cousin Bibi Sullivan seduced him. Bibi's father Robert detesting his pathetic family seeks his grandson while the rest of the brood knows what his finding the teen means to their gold spoon lifestyle.
This is an exhilarating rewriting of the author's tale Wishes with the new version emphasizing the suspense while the original the romance. Kate is terrific as she behaves like the Running Scared man in Roy Orbison's song of the same title as she always expected someone to claim Jon as theirs. When he and the extended Sullivan family converge on the Pacific Northwest, Kate knows her nightmare has come true but it is even worse than her frightening dreams as she never expected her son to be in danger. Lisa Jackson converts her tale into a taut thriller.
This book was good, but not Lisa Jackson's best. The story was interesting, kept the reader involved, but was not as suspenseful or intense as some of her other works.
a son's search to find his father
Great book - I love Lisa Jackson!
Running scared was another good read from Lisa Jackson. Good story line well written.
