The Kari AnnAlysis

Kyra and David Winter are your prime example of parents that are smotherers. They are overly protective, even taking their little boy out of school and homeschooling him. So when little Michael disappears out of their backyard, they are more than just a little shocked.

But both David and Kyra have secrets from their past that they believe have come back to haunt them. Could the kidnapper be David’s ex wife? Or one of Kyra’s long lost family members?

I’ve waited almost a week after finishing this book to write the review because I’m still not sure how I feel about this it. In the long run, it worked, but while reading it, I had a hard time getting through it. I loved the premise of the book: Son of overprotective parents goes missing and they both have people they knew could have done this. I loved the beginning of the book and the conversations between the little boy, who just wants a little freedom, but still knows the limits of right and wrong and the woman who claims to love the little boy although he’s never met her.

I also loved the ending of this book. The lesson, much likeGhost on Black Mountain, is that your secrets can come back and haunt you, especially when you keep them froms the ones who love you the most.

But the middle of the book, the guts, was what got to me. A lot of it was written through letters that our kidnapper had written to her mother. They should have gripped me, pulling me into the mind of a young woman, heartbroken that her mother left her and never came back. But instead, I found myself not liking these parts of the book. While they gave me a better idea of who this girl was, a lot of it seemed like rambling, not really furthering the story for me. I just wanted to get through them and get back to the story, to the kidnapping, to the little boy and his family trying to figure out who has him.

I give The Winters in Bloom 3 bookmarks.

ISBN: 978-1416575405
Release Date: September 13, 2011
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Kari got this book from Simon & Schuster Galley Grab

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