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Book Review: Stolen Truth
A mother looking for her lost child
Bree Michaelson went to bed after supper. She woke up 18 hours later. Her husband and baby were gone. There was no trace of them ever being in the house.
Novelist Henya Drescher puts us into a psychological thriller as Bree tries to find her baby.
This skilled novelist did not overwhelm me in the beginning. She just introduced enough setting, characters, and plot to get me started comfortably. She then introduced new elements as they were needed. Seldom was I ever asking: “What did I miss?”
This story moved quickly with connected threads and arcs. While so hoping for Bree to find her baby, I was never sure where the story was going to go; the plot was unpredictable yet believable. The author uses great sentence structure and dialogue to keep the action active.
The story delves into several social issues. There is a significant fog of mental illness, which creates a big arc like Aesop’s boy who cried “wolf.” Bree is not believed, which compounds the difficulty of her challenge. If this book finds its way into book clubs, how to “believe the unbelievable” should be a hot topic.
One of main and later story arcs might be a prophecy of things yet to come — for us in the real world. I shall leave it to you to find that prophecy — by reading this believable, exciting story.
