As those who have been reading this blog for awhile know, I am a fan of Lisa Scottoline. Her work is refreshing because her plots are anything but formulaic. Her characters tend to grab you and hold on. You care about what happens to them.
I certainly enjoyed "Look Again" for all those reasons. I relate to protagonist, Ellen Gleeson, perhaps because of her journalistic career and mindset, but even more so because she is an adoptive mother. We have twins we adopted at 15 months and went through some of the same angst in getting to finalization of the adoption, that Ellen has after the fact-- I can relate well to her feelings of helplessness and uncertainty when she finds out that, if the real parents' rights have not been legally severed, then the adoption is illegal and she has absolutely no rights.
The description of the difference between how custody battles are plaid out in court versus parental rights was a blast from my own past, and the explanation is right on the money. It's a hard distinction for adoptive parents to fathom or accept.
Anyway, fans of Scottoline will love this well written and nail-biting story of a missing child case gone wrong and how that impacts Ellen Gleeson and her son forever.
Liz Nichols
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