The Year of Fog

When I finished the book, I was not sure I enjoyed reading it but maybe enjoy is just the wrong word. It is memorable. A woman in her 30s takes her eyes off a child for a few seconds the child disappears in the fog. We do not know if the child drowned, wandered off, or was kidnapped. This riviting question is unanswered until the end. My own question is whether guilt would drive one to abandon job, family, loved ones, fiance the child's father for a year, going broke in the process, to track down leads, even as far as Central America. She obtains help in the form of a mysterious, handsome, wealthy man who falls for her immediately. If you can accept all this, read the book. It is a well written, introspecitive, intelligent, first-person narrative by an interesting if obscessive person.

This is such a beautifully written and compelling story. I really enjoyed it and I found it difficult when I had to put the book down and do something else. I loved that I didn’t know how it would end, and I won’t ruin it for those of you who haven’t read it, but the book was suspenseful and emotiona......more

A quick summary so you know who the characters I reference below are...Abby takes Jake's (her fiancee's) daughter, Emma, to the beach where Emma is kidnapped. This was a 400 pages book and it could have been 250 pages... This first 100 pages of this book were great because of the action/ suspense of......more

The blurb on the front caught my attention: "Highly recommended [for fans of] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard." Well, given my affinity for Jodi books and the fact I read Mitchard's "The Deep End of the Ocean" a few years back and liked it, that was more than enough to cause me to pi......more

in my opinion this book was 'ok'. i got really tired of her self flagellation and moaning around about her losing this child. i can not imagine what it would be like but to read about it for over 200 pages it just became very monotonous for me. many things made me nuts like where DID this woman get......more

A terrifying scenario. You lose a child. What if it's your fiance's six-year old daughter and you've lost her through three second's inattention on a foggy morning at the ocean, while your fiance is out of town? Your fiance's life is ruined and so is yours. And what happened to the child? I read 'The......more