I picked this one up after reading "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and gave up after about 50 pages. I honestly cannot understand the great reviews. Neither the story or the characters, as written, grabbed me. I found Ellen to be one dimensional, the writing sophomoric and lacking in originality. Many of the scenes did not feel real - the younger son's shoe shopping expedition, the talk with Melanie at Union Terrace. She calls her sons "babe", her friend calls her "babe". And on and on ..... I thought that I was in the middle of a poorly written, made for TV movie. Stories about the loss of a child have been done before by far better authors. Larsen's book has been compared to Jaqcueline Mitchard's "Deep End of the Ocean" and Judith Guest's "Ordinary People". Do yourself a favor, skip this one.
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