After I read Firefly Summer I was hesitant to read any more Kristin Hannah books because the sobbing at the end is so embarrassing. Luckily, my friend Patti read some and said they weren’t all as sad so I got a few more from the library. Some of them were a little too Danielle Steel-ish for my current taste (although I do still have my DS collection from the 80’s), but I really liked Magic Hour.
When I first started reading the book I thought the story was a little far-fetched because it’s about a little girl who lived with wolves. The book uses the term “feral child” so I looked up more about that on the internet and amazingly there are quite a few cases of feral children – not usually raised by animals these days but victims of severe neglect.
http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2008/reports/danielle/
http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081016-tows-perry-book
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7A26D7B616FED6F4&search_query=feral+child+genie
I found the book really interesting and I couldn’t put it down. And I didn’t cry at the end. Much.
From Publishers Weekly: Hannah’s melodramatic 15th novel (after The Things We Do for Love) tells the addictive soap opera story of a feral child and the adults who rally to help her. The cast of stock characters is led by child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates, whose reputation was ruined when she failed to prevent a teen patient from staging a Columbine-style massacre. Her sister, Ellie Barton, a smalltown former homecoming queen–turned–chief of police, summons Julia from Los Angeles to their Pacific Northwest hometown of Rain Valley to take on the case of a mysterious lost child, who appeared one day on the edge of town, presumably raised by wolves. With the dashing doctor Dr. Max Cerrasin at her side, Julia works diligently to tame the mute girl, whom she names Alice. Max, like Julia, is running from demons of his own. Though she initially rebuffs his overtures (“When I love, I risk my heart. All or nothing,” Julia declares), their romance inevitably blossoms while they work to solve the mystery of Alice’s parentage. The novel’s real love story, though, is the passion between Alice and Julia, and it’s hard not to root for the vulnerable little Wolf Girl. (Mar.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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When I went to Amazon.com to get this review, the book recommendations for me were:
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Sippy Cups Are Not For Chardonnay
I Was A Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids
Naptime Is The New Happy Hour, and
I’d Trade My Husband for a Housekeeper
Shoud I be worried?
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