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Summary: I want to meet Alex Astor!
Review: sara's romance with that mysterious inventor made me jealous! I couldn't put this book down. Couldn't help rooting for her on her quest. Recommended especialy to those who have a tough time saying "no" to people when they need help.
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Summary: It was Ok
Review: The story had great potential and it was pretty good. However, I felt like the book could have been two seperate manuscripts. There was one section all about her and the inventor and her young boyfriend, as well as her job teaching English to immigrants. And the other was her solving the mystery of her mother and then finding her.
Neither was deeply delved into enough to make it a great book. But both had great potential to become really good reads.
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Summary: Disturbing Piece
Review: When I read the summary on the back cover I though this may make a good read, but I really had a hard time getting to enjoy the main character Sarah.I almost put this boring drivel down a quarter through, but I wanted to see what happened with Sarah's search for her birth mother; which ends up being very uneventful. I hate Sarah's cold personality and found the dialog between characters to be very calculated and unnatural. Newman tries to create a somewhat hip character but fails miserably, perhaps because Newman herself isn't hip? Anyway, this book is not worth buying at all and was a disappointment considering Newman's credentials.
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Summary: Disturbing the Peace
Review: When reading the back cover of the book at the library it only described the book as an adopted daughter searching for her biological mother, so I was puzzled when reading the book and for the longest time nothing even mentioned her adoption, save the prologue which doesn't really fit in. The story began as Sarah Bridges dealed with her jobs teaching ESL and writing a novel and her love life with her much younger boyfriend. As the jobs became more and more taxing, the relationship got worse and worse. Soon Sarah found herself falling for another man who she didn't belive she should be falling for. Soon after spilling the adoption story to this other man, she decided to start to look for her mother. Things all work out for the best in the end, and it's a typical happy ending. The title has absolutly nothing to do with the book. Sarah is warned that finding her mother may "disturb the peace," but it really doesn't. When she finds her mother they do have problems communicating, but that's all.. they don't have much in common, so it seems their biggest problem is an awkward silence here or there. Another problem with the book is that Sarah seems incapable of multi-tasking. She is either focusing on her book, focusing on her teacher, dealing with the men in her life, dealing with friends, or dealing with her mother. They are all seperate events that just go round and round.. she can never have a love life and a relationship with her mother or teach and visit friends.. it doesn't make sense.. she should be able to have more than one thing happening in her life at one time. The book is sort of boring and I took breaks to read other books inbetween reading this one, but I finished it anyway.. there aren't enough twists, and everything that happens to Sarah just seems to convinient and easy for her to do. My adopted aunt has been searching for her mother for years, but in Sarah's case it was a matter of days before she knew all the information about her mother then after waiting months because she wanted to she found out the way to meet her in one more day... too easily. Maybe I just couldn't relate to it because I'm not adopted, and I think that's supposed to be the main focus of the story, but I found it too one dimensional and boring.
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