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Chargement... La Fille aux papillons (édition 2020)par Rene Denfeld (Auteur), Pierre Bondil (Traduction)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Butterfly Girl par Rene Denfeld
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Absolutely heart wrenching book. Beautiful. ( ) A great thriller from Rene Denfeld. I got to meet Rene when this book was released and I was moved to tears when she explained how she wrote this story. I finally got around to reading the book (stupid TBR shelf, ugh) and I am so glad that I did. I love that the outcome of this book has happy parts and realistic parts. You can't live through this kind of trauma and not need mental health help. I can't wait to read more of Rene's work in the future. In The Child Finder Naomi, a private investigator specializing in locating missing children solved the case of a missing girl who had been held captive in a remote, underground bunker. The disturbing similarities of the case reminded her of her own traumatic and shrouded past: one of her only early memories was of escaping an eerily similar situation and being forced to leave her younger sister behind. She never saw her sister again. Now in Portland, where an alarming number of young girls have recently gone missing from the streets, Naomi refocuses her efforts to locate her long-missing sister in addition to combing the city for clues surrounding the girls' disappearances. I liked the continuation of Naomi's story and her constant, seemingly impossible search for her sister whose name she doesn't even remember, and about whom she's felt a lifetime of guilt. I did have to suspend my disbelief at how the ending and some of the uncanny coincidences came together, but paired with the first book this was a satisfying conclusion to the duology. That at least some aspects of the narrative were also semi-autobiographical lent additional meaning and feeling to the story. I read The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld awhile back, and have been wanting to read this sequel to that novel. As in the first book, this book is hard to listen to (I listened on audiobook). Denfeld spares no punches when she describes what all the lost and missing children go through in their short lives. Naomi and Jerome, at the end of the last book, were on a mission to find her missing sister, who Naomi hasn't seen for twenty years. Both girls were taken when they were young--Naomi at age 4 and Sarah at age 2. Naomi manages to escape from where they have been held, but can't come back for her sister, and now 20+ years later, she has tracked her down to Iowa. Naomi remembers nothing about her life before her abduction. She can't even remember the name of her little sister. While searching Naomi comes across a young street girl called Celia. Naomi is strangely drawn to this girl, and she tries to help her, but Celia was horribly abused as a young child by her stepfather, and doesn't trust anyone. Naomi discovers a large number of nameless graves in the local graveyard. The graves belong to small children and none are identified, and while she and Jerome are in town, children's bodies are being found in the river. Naomi and Jerome know that something terrible has been happening in this small town for a long time. The book moves along at a quick pace, and more and more horrors are uncovered, but they don't seem to be leading Naomi to her lost sister, until they get a break from something they find in the town archives. This is a terrific two-book series which I highly recommend. The books are raw and horrific, but somehow the book appears to be filled with hope too. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieNaomi Cottle (2)
A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life. The search takes her to Portland, Oregon, where scores of homeless children wander the streets like ghosts, searching for money, food, and companionship. The sharp-eyed investigator soon discovers that young girls have been going missing for months, many later found in the dirty waters of the river. Though she does not want to get involved, Naomi is unable to resist the pull of children in need---and the fear she sees in the eyes of a twelve-year old girl named Celia. Running from an abusive stepfather and an addict mother, Celia has nothing but hope in the butterflies---her guides and guardians on the dangerous streets. She sees them all around her, tiny iridescent wisps of hope that soften the edges of this hard world and illuminate a cherished memory from her childhood--the Butterfly Museum, a place where everything is safe and nothing can hurt her. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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