Estelle Paradise and Jack Connor may not have had the most
romantic and passionate of relationships, but they did
seem
to care about each other. So when Estelle becomes
pregnant,
Jack suggests that they get married and form their own
little family. That is what they do and everything is good
for a while.
Then baby Mia arrives. At first, Estelle and Jack are
quite
happy with their new baby. Then, when Mia is a couple of
months old, she develops a very severe form of colic.
Severe
in that she cries constantly rather than at just a certain
time of the day. It is also then that the money problems
begin and Jack is forced to take a job out of the state
with
Estelle and Mia remaining behind in a brownstone that Jack
owns. It is being renovated for selling although now,
there
is an apartment in it that is finished.
Estelle has no help when Jack is away through the week and
Mia exhausts her. There are also strangers milling about
the
building as they work to get the renovations completed.
These strangers make Estelle nervous, which is something
else to put more pressure on her.
One day, Estelle wakes up in the hospital with no memory
of
how she got there. All she can remember is a lot blood but
not where it came from. But that is not the worst of it.
Mia is missing and Estelle has no idea where she is.
What follows in REMEMBER MIA is a twisting, turning, mind
bending tale as Estelle struggles to regain her memory of
what happened to her baby. I found it nearly impossible to
stop reading even when life duties called. Writer
Alexandra
Burt takes her readers by the hand and leads them along a
strange, frightening, and sad path that keeps them
guessing
the whole trip. Much like falling down The Rabbit Hole;
you
might think that you have it all figured out except that
is
when everything moves in a completely new direction.
As for the characters in REMEMBER MIA, Ms. Burt fleshes
them
out in a way that I became very involved with them. I did
have genuine emotions regarding each of them and that is
always a sign of great character development. It will not
seem as if you are reading just a book. The feeling is
more
like that of reading a news article and following a
horrific
criminal case. You will form your own opinions as to what
happened, just like in a "real life" case. The difference
here is that you will eventually have your answers by the
time your close the book for the final time.
If you enjoy books that pull you in from the beginning and
keep you so fully engrossed that you think about them even
when you are doing other things, REMEMBER MIA is a book
that
you should not miss. You will be doing yourself a great
disservice if you allow that to happen as you will be
depriving yourself of a truly exciting reading experience.
Like Girl on the Train and Gone Girl, Remember Mia is a riveting psychological suspense, exploring what happens when a young mother’s worst nightmare becomes devastatingly real…
First I remember the darkness. Then I remember the blood. I don’t know where my daughter is.
Estelle Paradise wakes up in a hospital after being found near dead at the bottom of a ravine with a fragmented memory and a vague sense of loss. Then a terrifying reality sets in: her daughter is missing.
Days earlier, Estelle discovered her baby’s crib empty in their Brooklyn apartment. There was no sign of a break-in, but all traces of seven-month-old Mia had disappeared. Her diapers, her clothes, her bottles—all gone.
Frustrated and unable to explain her daughter’s disappearance, Estelle begins a desperate search. But when the lack of evidence casts doubt on her story, Estelle becomes the number one suspect in the eyes of the police and the media.
As hope of reuniting with Mia becomes all she has left, Estelle will do anything to find answers: What has she done to her baby? And what has someone else done to her?
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