“This had nice suspense (I'm a big fan of Rita Heron's single title books), but at times I felt things like the hero and heroine's guilt and the hero's obsession with his job were hammered into the reader too much. Got to feel repetitive after a while and I found myself thinking "I know. I get it already," more than once. The child in jeopardy plot of course got to me since I'm a mother of a child around that age, but I'm also from the Boston area so some things about the setting didn't ring true, like the way the hero and heroine seemed to be able to navigate congested city roads (in a blackout even!) in no time at all. That was nothing short of a miracle :-). And being an IT person, I had some issues with the hero being able to send email during a blackout. Sure the battery on his computer might be fine, but even with a wireless connection, you need power on your wireless router or your mail isn't going anywhere. He was able to do amazing things with databases and whatnot with no electricity in the whole city. Not logical from a technology standpoint. :-) I also had problems believing the scenes shown from the point of view of the young child. The child thought in terms that didn't seem to mesh with his young age. When the man put him in a sack he compared it to a "sack of potatoes," which is an adult image. My son would have no idea 1.) that potatoes ever came in burlap bags because he only sees plastic bags in the store and 2.) he's never seen a man put potatoes over his shoulder like that, so the reference just didn't feel like a 5 year old's. Also when he was locked in the truck and thought he'd been "left to rot" that wasn't a 5 year old's thinking either. My son, if he even thought about what the word "rot" meant, wouldn't see a steel box as a place where something rots. Things rot in the ground, they're dirty etc. So, again, that felt like an adult perspective placed on a child. And actually the child's reaction to the whole kidnapping didn't mesh with how I think a real 5 year old's would. My son would have been an hysterical mess if he'd been hit and knocked about as what was happening to the boy in the story. So, I a lot of believability issues with this story, I'm sorry to say, but again, the suspense aspect of the story, the things that kept you guessing, were well done. That part of the story kept me reading until the end. ”
