Sandra (mycatscanread) - reviewed on 10/6/2011 + 174 more book reviews

It's been twelve years since we've seen Patrick, Angie, Amanda, Amanda's mother Helene, Bubba and a host of others in Dennis LeHane's Gone, Baby, Gone. Twelve years ago when Amanda was four years old, she disappeared and Patrick rescued her from her kind and loving kidnappers and returned her to her unfit mother. This nearly brought an end to Angie and Patrick's relationship because Angie disagreed with taking the child away from loving people who would give her a good life.

Now, twelve years later when Amanda is sixteen, she has disappeared again. Helene goes to Patrick to see if he will take on the case of looking for her once more. Helene and her boyfriend are the same mess and even worse. Why would Patrick want to look for Angie again and bring her back to the same situation? Money might be a good reason.

This book is good for its entertainment value, and it does go very quickly. I read it in one night, but it isn't the book that Gone, Baby, Gone is or Mystic River.
The plot gets bogged down with too many characters who aren't really well-developed, meth dealers, and the Russian mob who can speak English in three-word sentences that are still pretty bad. An awful lot of the situations are not that believable, but even though the end is one of those situations, it's fireworks, excitement and deathly tense. For the entertainment value, I gave it four stars.

Sandy

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