It's best not to watch this piece of trash, but for masochists and fans of misinformation one can do much worse. No, actually not... Worse? Not really. This book just reminded me, how much I love Susan Lewis's works. It's been a while since I read her books. I think it's high time I get started on it, isn't it? By the way, there is a sequel to this book: The author's handling of the character Erica is appaling. The words 'basket case' and 'nut job' are used in relation to people with mental health problems.

Charlotte worked on her web, and when she had finished, the word TERRIFIC was written in the web. But the word wasn't for Charlotte, but for Wilbur, the magnificent pig. It never was about Charlotte.The book ends almost immediately after the climax, which leaves the delusion that the end hangs in nowhere, but I think it is clearly finished. What I did not like was that it was not as spooky as I expected. Yeah, some floors creaked and objects were moved, but there could have been so much more. Also, I’d want Sanjay’s POV. Essie loves Sanjay. She had their lives planes out and so far everything worked according to plan. They just bought their first house. Then Essie finds out that she is pregnant and she is not sure if that fits into the life she had mapped out so perfectly. No Child of Mine is from Net Galley, Random House-Ballantine. Release date for this republication is May 13, 2013, but you can also get the original 2012 publication. This is one of the most difficult books, I have ever read, it is heartbroken. I loved the main character, Alex Lake. She is a social worker, works with Child Protection, she is a hard worker and she will do everything to protect the children in her caseload.

No Child of Mine is about Alex Lake, a woman with a tragic past works as a social worker for children in England who happens to be drawn towards a mysterious young girl whose father Alex finds disturbing in a most peculiar way. As an anonymous call comes through social services, Alex finds herself once again drawn to the same girl she met. Curiousty hits Alex as she finds out about the family amd behavior of the little three year old Ottilie. She is afaid and concerned for her and does everything she can to help little Ottilie, even if it means it's against all laws. Alex Lake not only gets attached to her charge, but she also experiences lost and found from her tragedy as a little girl. Thank you to Poisoned Pen Press, Dreamscape Media and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own. Alex Wade is a social worker and dedicated to her job. When she first sees little Ottilie Wade, she immediately register both concern for the child and a strange attraction.stars. Oh my! What a novel! This is the first time I have read Susan Lewis, so I wasn't so sure whether I would like it. However one very telling review on Goodreads from a reader I really respect - Laurel-Rain, had given it 5 stars so that was a good start!

With this being said, there is a certain reveal that happens, where after that, it started making sense. Plus, additional things were happening in the current perspective, where you could feel that distinct influence from the past. I could not put this book down...I read well into the day and late into the night. I loved this author's writing style...it was intense and addictive. The story felt so sadly real. Ottilie was the sweetest most innocent child and the thought of the horrors she lived through at the hands of her parents...was so sad. When I started the book, I thought it would be nothing more than a good horror book with few ghosts or demons, a few scary moments, and a sinister setting. This book is so much more than that and at the same time nothing like it.But what of the content? Well it engaged me all the way through. Alex is a social worker, and a very good one. She cares about the children she works with. She puts in long hours and it is often heart breaking and difficult. She has to contend with situations where sometimes her life is at risk. She herself had a very distressing beginning to her young life and so knows first hand being left orphaned. Alex was adopted when she was three years old, she grew up feeling rejected by her birth mother, which seemed to eager to let her go and doesn’t want to have nothing to do with her. I cannot decide whether I like Alex or not. Although she was clearly very damaged by her own childhood and obviously loved the children in her care, particularly Ottilie, her attachment to this one child, which was ultimately rooted in a wish that her own childhood never happened, seemed unfair and her actions unprofessional and unfair to Ottilie. I can see someone not working with children seeing this as her only option, but surely Alex, as a social worker, would understand her actions wrong for both Ottilie and the other children in her care? That being said, she seemed to act on the maternal caring nature that is aroused whenever a vulnerable child cries, and so I find it difficult to wholly blame her.

The writing shined the brightest during those early spooky scenes. As someone who has never been pregnant it gave me descriptions and details that made me feel as if I knew what it felt like. The imagery made me feel as if I was actually in the room. I couldn't put this down for like the first 60%. (The first and second trimester) Starring: Brooke Kinsella (Kerry), Billy Geraghty (Dad), Sharon Small (Mum), Colin Salmon (Teacher), Geoffrey Church (Stepdad) Isabel took a while to get a handle on. At first I thought she was being way too overly emotional about her best friend marrying and then....well things get slowly revealed. I was curious what was the date in the past that Isabel lived in. I assume at least 1800s or so? And I think that only because of the description about food and dresses. But, I ended up not liking this character, you will get to why that is when you read the book though. That said, Giraldes did a great job developing her and the character of Ana (Isabel's best friend). The characters are awesomely built and set throughout the story. Multi-layered, deep and real, they present their story, and even if we do not have a look at the thoughts of all of them, we manage to get to know them enough through their actions.

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Kosminsky made the film in an angry response to her case. “I was appalled by the conveyor-belt aspect of child abuse,” he says. “Children can be abused at home, taken into care, then abused and lured into prostitution while in care.” For me, there were times, when it felt a little too disjointed. By this I mean, the transition between the two sometimes seemed jarring; like it wasn't as fluid as I would hope. And in a way, the babies were right; who were they but pieces of their mother stitched together into a tiny, new body?” The most disturbing part of this film for me would have to be the care home sequence as you think the main character is in a stable environment now with people around her to care for her. But then one of care workers comes into her room and starts making comments about her mirror which they talk happily shot for a while. Then he pounces on her bed and proceeds to say the same similar threats to her again. Which just made me realise how helpless she must have felt having gone through all she has done only to be met with the same fate again. There are several scenes of assault in this film which are equally as disturbing as each other with the main actress being great throughout the film and these sequences help amplify my belief of her acting abilities with the sheer terror she conveys in these scenes. I think the utter feeling of hopelessness also helps makes this film more disturbing with it feeling constant claustrophobic like there is no end to this characters disgusting lifestyle which she is forced into everyday. The only thing that prevents this film from being a 10 on the disturbing scale are some of the assaulters acting abilities which make them a bit laughable as they sound like they’re trying to be as evil as possible and whilst it’s achieved it comes across a bit cheesy and a bit BBC drama like.