{"id":3219,"date":"2006-07-15T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2017-12-15T17:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T23:04:32","slug":"book-report-and-then-she-was-gone-by-susan-mcbride-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/15\/book-report-and-then-she-was-gone-by-susan-mcbride-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: And Then She Was Gone by Susan McBride (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked this book up at the Kirkwood Book Fair because I recognized the local author’s name from the Big Sleep Books<\/a>, and this book was a First Edition\/First Printing. For a dollar. You cannot do wrong, can you?<\/p>\n

Well, it’s a child snatch book, and although it’s not Nightmare in Manhattan<\/i><\/a>, I didn’t care for it that much. I’m just not big on that particular plot thing. Perhaps I just don’t have the same nightmares as most parents, but I don’t have an automatic investment in child snatch books, even if there’s the scandalous confrontation of child molestation!<\/i> It hearkens me back to my single visit to a starting writers’ group in my former suburb, where it was me, a couple of “poets,” and a number of old ladies all writing books on child molestation. It creeped me out, I kid you not.<\/p>\n

The book is a serviceable genre piece, though, and worth a buck if you can find it. It did, however, alert me to Mayhaven Publishing<\/a> and its annual novel competition. Boy, novel competitions are starting to look good to me as far as publishing my last novel are concerned.<\/p>\n

Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n