Lindas Book Obsession Reviews “Sophie Last Seen” by Marlene Adelstein, Red Adept Publishing
Marlene Adelstein, Author of “Sophie Last Seen” has written an amazing, captivating, intense, intriguing, suspenseful and edgy novel. Marlene Adelstein is an amazing writer, and vividly describes the characters, birds, scenery and landscape. Utilizing all of my senses, I could see, hear, feel, touch, taste and smell many of the events described. The Genres for this story are Fiction, Mystery, Suspense and Thriller. The author describes her colorful and quirky characters as complex, complicated and dysfunctional. The timeline for this story is in the present and goes to the past where is pertains to the characters and events in the story.
Jesse has lived other mother’s nightmares for the last six years. Can you imagine your daughter disappearing? Jesse had taken her daughter Sophie shopping, and within a few minutes Sophie disappears. Sophie is ten years old with a fascination and obsession with birds. Sophie often compares the characteristics of birds to people. Sophie has shown her mother that crows are extremely intelligent. After feeding them, the crows often leave Sophie shiny and small objects as gifts. Sophie can also have tantrums if she doesn’t get her way. On this particular day, Sophie is upset that Jesse won’t stop to see a certain bird, and then becomes upset that Jesse won’t let her have a certain shirt from the store.
Star, one of the few friends that Sophie had, is reminded that she broke a promise to go with Sophie shopping the day that Sophie was last seen. Star also has tremendous guilt. Both Jesse and Star are working in Star’s father used bookstore, and struggle with Sophie’s loss.
Both Jesse and Star haven’t found closure with Sophie’s loss, and live dysfunctional lives. They both try to use Sophie’s bird journals for clues to what could have happened to Sophie.
The author discusses the importance of forgiveness, acceptance, faith, hope and love. I would highly recommend this suspenseful novel for those readers who enjoy this genre.
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A quick and easy read!
This is my first post as part of a Suzy Approved Blog Tour! I was excited when I got the great news that I was part of this tour too! When I saw that the author of today's book, Sophie Last Seen was Marlene Adelstein, is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, I was doing silent "YAY" hands in my head as a fellow former Cleveland, Ohio hometown gal myself!Anyway, onto the story: Jesse was in the mall with her then ten-year old daughter, Sophie, six years ago. They were shopping for clothes and Sophie wanted a particular shirt. Jesse said no, Sophie threw a fit and Jesse let go of her hand for less than 2 minutes and suddenly, Sophie disappeared.They begin to launch an investigation but they don't find anything. Jesse and her husband end up getting divorced over time. Jesse becomes convinced that Sophie is giving her signs that she is near and that they need to come find her. Jesse is convinced she can find Sophie and she starts to go through an old journal she found that has entries related to bird clues.Readers will learn that this story is much more than a book about finding Sophie; they will realize that it's also a story about a mother grieving over the loss of her daughter. It's got a real and believable story line that draws readers to feel emotionally connected to the characters, especially Jesse. I really enjoyed Sophie Last Seen and I especially loved that it was a quick and easy read. The author does a great job sharing different perspectives of different people who grieve with readers. We learn about forgiveness, romance, and acceptance as we follow one woman's journey in search of the truth about her missing daughter.Thanks to Suzy Approved Book Tours, Marlene Adelstein and Red Adept Publishing for my review copy of this book and including me on this book tour!
