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Liked It “"Loved To Death" will take you on a roller coaster ride you will not believe. This is an Author to be reckon with, she takes the reader through emotions you may have never known you had, from the beginning until the end. Your eye will be open like never before regarding adoption, and will never...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“"Loved To Death" will take you on a roller coaster ride you will not believe. This is an Author to be reckon with, she takes the reader through emotions you may have never known you had, from the beginning until the end. Your eye will be open like never before regarding adoption, and will never think of adoption the same way again.
Urchild wrote this review Saturday, September 12 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This is a must read!!!!!!!!!
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“Life lesson on adoption
SiStar Tea wrote this review Saturday, August 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
While I don’t know much about adoption this book was a real eye opener. From the feelings of both the adoptee and the adopting parents, I now have a better sense of the emotions all the parties par take in.
The sub title “a different kind of love story” is the perfect title for this fast pace quick read. We follow along the realms of Morosa Denise McKinley as she is missing for two years. Author Rosa Ferguson takes us along in this diverse short story with us riding shoot gun along with the characters as they tell their side of the story. The characters included Morosa who tells most of the story. We also hear from Morosa’s Parents, Morosa’s strange and Caucasian classmate and also lover Mathew Taylor. Detective Nettles is a rookie assign to Morosa case. Detective Wells a thirty year veteran. I was shocked at the turn of event and I am sure you will be also.
This short story is about love, love lost, not enough love. We follow the emotions of Morosa as she speaks of her adoption. I was surprised at the ending my compliments to Mrs. Ferguson I think she achieved what she set out to do. Open up eyes about adoption, a love story with mix with suspense.
SiStar Tea
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4.5 star rating
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“It was very disturbing and heart wrenching, however, I think it is not only a good read, but a necessary one for us to understand the full ramifications of adoption. It's not only the roof over the head and food in the stomach. It's about identity and acceptance.”
A Book Collector wrote this review Sunday, November 2 2008. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A Love to Die For
OOSA Online Book Club wrote this review Saturday, February 23 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Adoption was the answer for Morrow and Rose McKinley. They brought five day old Morosa Denise McKinley home and made her their own. But for the now twenty-three year old Morosa, was adoption the right answer?
"Loved to Death" is an unconventional ghost story with a hint of who-dun-it told from the viewpoint of multiple characters. "Loved to Death" is a very short and quick to read story. In this case, I believe its length worked against the story. There was not enough time for character development or for the plot to build and grow on readers. Before you know it, the story is over. I think this would be better as a full length novel with more exploration of characters and the plot. And my advice for the author with her future releases would be to limit the narratives. Readers bounce from one character's narrative to the next without introduction. You have to read a sentence or two or three to realize which character's viewpoint you are now reading from. Despite a few editing quirks, "Loved to Death" is a decent debut effort.
Reviewed by: Toni ”
“Short reading, but unable to put it down. Very well written in so few word. ”
skipstover wrote this review Monday, November 26 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A "compelling, biting, tragedy-of-love story"
Paize Fiddler wrote this review Thursday, November 1 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Loved to Death; the story of an adopted child, a young lady at the time of the storytelling who never knew true love, never “fit into” her life, never felt completely “right” or genuine about the charade she considered herself and others thought of her as. Until the very end; when misguided love kills her, releasing her into peaceful re-union with God.
Artfully written by author Rosa Ferguson, this compelling, biting tragedy-of-love story is a fast read. You can’t put it down once started, it’s not all that long, and it’s certainly not the kind of book you can just nibble at. You have to swallow the whole thing all at once, and in many ways, most of them emotional, it’s a tough pill to swallow. Very entertaining, plenty of plot twists and intrigue, gripping, Ferguson has an expert command of writing about the dark side of the human psyche. She puts you inside the heads of troubled people, lets you feel their pain, understand their decisions. Both thumbs up and the hats-off from this reader … I highly recommend it.
Marvin D. Wilson, author, I ROMANCED THE STONE (Memoirs of a Recovering Hippie)
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“I like the way the author has worked with the different points of view to let one in on the thinking of each major character. After reading, it makes me think about adoptees and how they must always carry the burden of unknown parents with them, for a lifetime. Such was the plight of Morosa, the main character, a 23 year-old adoptee who tries to explain her life after her death, along with each of the main characters perspectives on who she was. Though fiction, it rings loudlly the theme that is carried with many adopted children and the author shares those feelings in ways that nonadoptees can begin to understand. ”
ljreader wrote this review Tuesday, October 30 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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