It’s really well written, interesting and the characters are likeable and relatable. But as said above, after a couple of chapters I got into the story. The beginning was confusing to me, so many characters, maybe one to many POV’s, at least for my comfort zone. At times I was confused but the story was told kn a way, that was easy to understand what happened years ago. I might have fared better, if I had red the prequel, but I did fine. Then the unthinkable happens, Riley disappears. She receives threats online and a lot of trolling. Melissa takes on the role of the stepmother.īut someone else is not happy with Melissa’s happiness. Melissa is happy with Charlie, who she met a year ago. While Mike has accepted the past and moved on, Melissa has pushed all the memories back, but clearly has not moved on, the same as her brother has. Their two children Mike and Melissa are doing as well as they can. She had a good life with her second husband, who passed away a year ago. She is about to leave Cape Cod and move to the Southamptons. Now forty years later, we meet Nancy again. Years later her two children from a second marriage, Mike and Melissa, would go missing, and Nancy yet again became the prime suspect-but this time, Nancy was able to confront the secrets buried in her past and rescue her kids from a dangerous predator.” Though released on a technicality, she was abandoned by her husband and became such a pariah in the media that she was forced to move across the country to Cape Cod, change her identity and appearance, and start a new life. “Nancy Harmon was convicted of murdering her two children. But as I have not read the first book, it’s maybe better to just copy paste the blurb: In case you have not read the prequel, like me, here is the summary. While to get the connections and who is who. Of course the characters were all foreign to me and it took me. I assume that it would have benefitted me to have read the first book, but I did fine without it. I have in fact never read a MHC novel before. Maybe you asked yourself the same thing I did, do you have to read “Where are the Children” before this book!? I have not. Thank you NetGalley, Simon & Schuster, Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke for letting me read “Where are the Children Now”, in exchange for an honest review. Just like the original, Where Are the Children Now? keeps readers guessing and holding their breath until the very last page. Drawing on the experience of their own abduction, Melissa and Mike race to find Riley to save her from the trauma they still struggle with-or worse. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to the equally idyllic Hamptons, Melissa’s new stepdaughter goes missing. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. Years later her two children from a second marriage, Mike and Melissa, would go missing, and Nancy yet again became the prime suspect-but this time, Nancy was able to confront the secrets buried in her past and rescue her kids from a dangerous predator. In that story, a young California mother named Nancy Harmon was convicted of murdering her two children. Of the fifty-six bestsellers the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark published in her lifetime, Where Are the Children? was her biggest, selling millions of copies and forever transforming the genre of suspense fiction. The legacy of the “Queen of Suspense” continues with the highly anticipated follow-up to Mary Higgins Clark’s iconic novel Where Are The Children?, featuring the children of Nancy Harmon, facing peril once again as adults.
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