Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Prodigal
SERIES: Lost and Found #1
AUTHOR: TA Moore
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 249 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 11, 2020
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Fifteen years ago Sammy Calloway disappeared on his way home from school. Now he’s back… or is he?
Boyd Maccabbee has spent his life second-guessing his actions on that fateful day. What if he’d done something differently? Maybe Sammy would have made it home safe and never become Cutters Gap’s most tragic famous son. Or would it have been Boyd who was never seen again? When the police find new evidence on the disappearance, Boyd hopes to finally get some answers.
The last thing Morgan Graves needs is to be dragged into some old case about a missing kid. He doesn’t know why police hit on his DNA, but he’s not Sammy Calloway. He thinks he’d remember being kidnapped.
He knows he’d remember firefighter Boyd.
Drawn into the complex web of suspicion, grief, and anger that has knit Cutters Gap together in the years since Sammy’s disappearance, Morgan struggles to hang on to himself when everyone already assumes they know him.
And somewhere, the truth about Sammy Calloway is waiting.
REVIEW:
This was one heck of a hard read. It’s really good, but it’s hard. And harsh. It’s shows the hard lives of people who go through traumatic experiences such as kidnappings, murder, etc. It’s not a pretty picture. It’s so well written but this book is going to bring out a lot of emotions in people when you read it. I was angry through a lot of it. I got why the victims acted like they did, but still.
When Sammy Calloway went missing, the town seemed to fall apart. And everyone seemed to be to blame for something. Boyd wondered what would have happened if he had done something different. Sammy’s family….well, I’m sure you can imagine what that spiral went like. It was bad. For 15 years, it’s been a love hate relationship with everyone, as far as Boyd is concerned. And now, evidence is showing the actual Sammy may be alive and is this man, Morgan, that Boyd is looking at. Boyd doesn’t see it. Morgan doesn’t believe it either. He thinks he’d remember being taken away. But all he remembers is the pure torture that his life has been. But he’s stuck between a rock and a hard place of his own making, and now has to go back to this town to see if he really is who everyone seems to want or not want him to be. And all he wants to do is run away.
I can’t get in to why this book upset me in a lot of ways, without giving it away. But needless to say, there were a lot of hateful words spouted a lot in this book and it seemed like after, once an apology was made, everything would be somewhat ok. Blame was placed where it shouldn’t have been and it was just harsh. I understand why. I understand the anger, the grief, the what ifs, and all that goes on. I can’t honestly imagine what goes through someone’s head when they’ve lost a child like that. I can’t imagine what everyone feels when that happens. I can guess. But know one really knows unless they’ve been through it. So when you see things from the outside, you see the unfairness and all, but you aren’t in their minds so you can’t really judge what they think or say. I tried not to. As a mom, I would probably be in the same frame of mind. I’d like to think I wouldn’t but you never know and I pray that no one has to know. But unfortunately, it happens. I felt for every character in this book. Every single one of them. Every one was affected in some way, shape or form. It’s a long reach. And for so many years.
This really is a good book. But it really is harsh. It’s not a pretty picture, and if you think something will trigger you, be careful. But it’s so good. The way the author weaved this story was great. But now I think I need something funny lol.
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