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Summary: :)
Review: --After Cameron Miller's father, a man who abducted and killed many young boys, dies, Cameron takes on the identity of one of his father's victims, Neil Lacey, because he likes the sound of them and especially because of their sailboats, for some unknown reason. After joining their family in hope of finding happiness, Cameron finds out that several of his father's friends have discovered his plans and are after him. --I loved this book; it was very emotional and nicely written. It wasn't too disturbing although there is some mention of physical and sexual abuse, there aren't too many details. It worked its way up to a great climax extremely well. --Marisa
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Summary: Counterfeit Son
Review: Cameron Miller has been living under his father's torture for almost his whole life. His father has murdered and abused many boys while Cameron had to listen to their shrieks and cries. Now that his father has been killed in a police shooting. Cameron has a chance to escape. He goes to the police and says he's Neil Lacey who's been missing for years and was murdered by Cameron's father. He tries to live his life with the Lacey's lying, but he's not the only one who knows his secret. His "sister" and Detective Simmons were kind of suspicious of what he was trying to do.
The book was really good because the plots and the events made you wanting more. In my opinion, the best part was the very suprising twist. If you've never read this book, I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Great Read
Review: Cameron Miller is the son of an abusive father that is killed by the police. He claims that he is the son of the Lacey family but his "sister" and a detective are soon on his tracks. He tries to change who he is to be more like Neil Lacey. After a brawl with his father's accomplice, Cougar, this book takes a twisted turn... This book is a great read. It will keep you glued to every page and when you're done it will leave you yearning for more.
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Summary: Were it not for the ending, I might have loved it.
Review: Cameron Miller's father is a sadistic serial killer. He deeply enjoys beating and sexually abusing his son, and when he tires of this he kidnaps a boy and locks Cameron in the cellar, and Cameron has to listen to the victim until the screaming stops. This is his life; he knows no other. He can't remember much of his childhood, but seems to think that it's perfectly normal to be abused in such a fashion. Cameron survives by being totally obedient. He does whatever his father says. The reason the boys die is because they won't obey. Cameron notes that one boy who came did obey, and lived for three weeks, but went berserk and started screaming and throwing things, and Cameron's dad had to kill him. Cameron gets a lucky break when his father is killed in a police shootout. He goes through his father's newspaper files on all the victims and decides to try to pass himself off as one of them, a boy named Neil Lacey. He picked Neil because he bore a strong resemblance to the boy, and because he knew Neil's family was wealthy (though another victim had been even wealthier) and had sailboats. Neil's parents immediately embraced him, but Neil's younger sister and the police detective in charge of the case were suspicious. Nevertheless, Cameron thought he could pull it off -- until one of his father's criminal associates showed up and started blackmailing him, and threatening to kidnap Neil's younger brother. If it wasn't for the ending, I would have really liked this book. The ending is not quite so bad as in Terry Trueman's "Stuck in Neutral" but it certainly makes the book lose credibility. I'm not going to say what the ending is, except that Cameron Miller knows way more about how to sail a yacht than he should. Nonetheless, I would recommend this book, perhaps as a companion to Catherine Atkins's "When Jeff Comes Home".
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Summary: possibilities
Review: Cameron Miller.
Son of a killer.
What would you feel if you happened to be the son of a man who kidnaps and murders children? That's who Cameron is. What would you do if you had the chance to get away from the horrible world filled with the anguished cries and pitiful pleas made by kids your dad beats up? That's what Cameron had. He took it. He lives with this wealthy family and everything he wants.But he ALSO lives with a haunting lie that's just waiting to be revealed.
Cameron has sleepless nights his new home thinking
, "if someone knew the truth...then what?They'd catch me and put me in jail just like they might've done to Pop..."
Little did Cameron Know he was bringing the truth with him all along...
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Summary: One of the Best Books I've Read
Review: Children's or adult's! Counterfeit Son is riveting from beginning to end. I admire the way the author makes it clear that Cameron has been through so much horror, yet is never explicit about those horrors. She focuses on Cameron's reactions, instead ("it was because I was bad," Pop said). She very well captures the low self-esteem and self-blaming of the victim (actually, one of many victims) here. I kept thinking Cameron's identity would have to come out in the end, and tried to imagine how this would come about. I couldn't outguess it! One reviewer didn't like the ending, but I have to say I thought it was brilliant!
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Summary: Counterfiet Son
Review: Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin is a good book. The author does an excellent of job of keeping the reader's attention and adding special events that keep the reader addicted to the story. The author also does an exceptional job at really getting into the mind of Cameron and conveying to us what is going through his brain at certain times.
Nevertheless, the thing that Alphin does the best in this story is that she writes about what Cameron is thinking at certain times. She really writes about the emotions and psychological attitudes a boy our age (14 or 15) is living through. The reader is basically brought into the mind of Cameron/Neil Lacey and is able to feel what Cameron is feeling.
However, the thing that really kept me reading was to find out how Cameron was able to take the identity of Neil Lacey and not be caught. Another thing was to find out how Cameron would be able to adapt to a totally new life style and try to fit into the shoes of Neil Lacey. Counterfeit Son is a very captivating novel that will leave you with a surprising ending.
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Summary: Shocking Surprise
Review: Elaine Marie Alpin out does herself on this book. With and unbelievably shocking ending, you can't go wrong reading this book. Seeing what torture child abuse is for someone, and just how much it affects your life, is what you will get out of Counterfeit Son. I highly recommend you read this book, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Happy Ending
Review: I found Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin to be an exhilarating book full of suspense and excitement. It's the type of book that you just can't put down because you just have to know what happens next. It's basically about a boy named Cameron Miller whose father was a child serial killer who kidnaped young boys and abused them, then killed them, but he kept his son, Cameron, and never killed him. When the police come to arrest his father, they end up killing him and Cameron goes to the police and tells them that he is Neil Lacey, one of the boys that his father killed. He goes and lives with this family despite the persistence of Detective Simmons who doesn't believe that Cameron is really Neil. The book is about how Cameron tries to trick this family into believing his story.
I liked the way that in the end, everything seemed to work out. During the whole story, you thought to yourself: How is Cameron going to pull this off? But in the end, all the conflicts are resolved and even though it seems like there will never be a happy ending for Cameron, there is.
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Summary: Happy Ending
Review: I found Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin to be an exhilarating book full of suspense and excitement. It's the type of book that you just can't put down because you just have to know what happens next. It's basically about a boy named Cameron Miller whose father was a child serial killer who kidnaped young boys and abused them, then killed them, but he kept his son, Cameron, and never killed him. When the police come to arrest his father, they end up killing him and Cameron goes to the police and tells them that he is Neil Lacey, one of the boys that his father killed. He goes and lives with this family despite the persistence of Detective Simmons who doesn't believe that Cameron is really Neil. The book is about how Cameron tries to trick this family into believing his story.
I liked the way that in the end, everything seemed to work out. During the whole story, you thought to yourself: How is Cameron going to pull this off? But in the end, all the conflicts are resolved and even though it seems like there will never be a happy ending for Cameron, there is.
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