The Forgotten Child by Lorhainne Eckhart
Genre - Contemporary Romance
Length – 230 page novel
TBR Reviewer – Shyla
Genre - Contemporary Romance
Length – 230 page novel
TBR Reviewer – Shyla
The heroine Emily is a woman who’s had enough of the failing marriage she’s been trapped in. Determined to make a better life for herself, she ends things with her husband, and scrambles to find a job to support her and her two-year-old daughter, Katy. When Brad offers her a job for childcare after her first interview it seems like a Godsend. Not only can she bring her daughter, she’ll have room and board as well. There is something extremely wrong with Trevor, and his father is determined to turn a blind eye to his behavior. This does nothing to Curb her attraction to the moody one who makes her temperature rise one moment and gives her the cold shoulder the next. Can she get him to see there’s something wrong with Trevor and get the boy help while cultivating a relationship?
My main issue was the characters. For a woman who had the balls to leave her husband with no job lined up, Emily allowed herself to be treated poorly and fall back into a new relationship mighty fast. The ink wasn’t even dry on the paper and had a man treated my girlfriend the way he did Emily, I’d be busting his head and hers for staying with him.
I understood what the author was trying to convey, but I have to say she handled Brad’s response to his son’s problems with a heavy hand. As a Mother of two, I found it really hard to swallow a parent not seeking Help for a child for an obvious disability. Not talking by the age of three, kicking and screaming when your toy is moved and peeing on the floor in the grocery store are signs you can’t ignore. For this reason me and hero Brad started out on the wrong foot from the start and it never really changed. Brad had a lot of cowardly behavior and a temper that concerned me.
The accounts of autism and the help available were wonderful. Kudos to Ms. Eckhart for talking this tough and controversial issue. The detail she put into descriptions was fabulous, and I could really picture life on a ranch and the settings the story took place in. There were quite a few grammatical errors and sentences that didn’t make sense. So I’d have to say the story could’ve used a lot more editing.
This story had a wonderful concept. I just don’t think it was properly executed.
My main issue was the characters. For a woman who had the balls to leave her husband with no job lined up, Emily allowed herself to be treated poorly and fall back into a new relationship mighty fast. The ink wasn’t even dry on the paper and had a man treated my girlfriend the way he did Emily, I’d be busting his head and hers for staying with him.
I understood what the author was trying to convey, but I have to say she handled Brad’s response to his son’s problems with a heavy hand. As a Mother of two, I found it really hard to swallow a parent not seeking Help for a child for an obvious disability. Not talking by the age of three, kicking and screaming when your toy is moved and peeing on the floor in the grocery store are signs you can’t ignore. For this reason me and hero Brad started out on the wrong foot from the start and it never really changed. Brad had a lot of cowardly behavior and a temper that concerned me.
The accounts of autism and the help available were wonderful. Kudos to Ms. Eckhart for talking this tough and controversial issue. The detail she put into descriptions was fabulous, and I could really picture life on a ranch and the settings the story took place in. There were quite a few grammatical errors and sentences that didn’t make sense. So I’d have to say the story could’ve used a lot more editing.
This story had a wonderful concept. I just don’t think it was properly executed.
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