Wednesday, February 8, 2012

What Janie Found

My book is the last in the series. I have read the first and the second but skipped the third because I couldn't find it. But this books keeps going back to what happened in the previous book, so I have pretty good understanding of it. So Janie-well really Jennie- was kidnapped when she was just three years old by a Hannah Javenson. Hannah was "different" Asa child growing up. Her parents Frank and Miranda Javenson thought that he problem was that she didn't have any friends, because she she had a good life. Her parents weren't rich, but they lived descently. After Hannah leftbfor college, she did make friends, people part of a cult. She lost all contact with her parents until years later she showed up with little Janie. She left her with her parents never to be found again. Frank and Miranda had fell for the lie that Janie was their granddaughter. But in fear of the cult coming after her. They ran off with janie and changed their last name to Johnson. Very thing was fine until Janie recognized her face on the milk carton at school. Throughout the first and second book. Janie meets her real family, but eventually moves back in with fake family.she falls in love with her next door neighbor. And no one knows where Hannah is. As if she fell of the face of the earth. In the third book. Reeve heads off to college and tells Janie's story for his job at the radio station. Janie gets mad and braks up with him. In this book now, Reeve is trying to win Janie back. Frank had a stroke and heart attack and is in aroma. Oh, and Janie found out that her dad has been supporting his real daughter-kidnapper Hannah- which means he's known where she has lived. Janie sets off with reeve and her real brother from her real family Brian to meet Hannah. But they refuse to let her do it so she is lying. Her excuse to even go to Boulder, Colorado is that her real older brother Stephen goes to college there. So no one suspects a thing except Brian and reeve who are trying to keep a close eye on her.
I find this series crazy yet it keeps pulling me in. Thaey always end the book with a new big mystery. So you can't stop and just put the book down. You have to keep reading. I like how although this big issue is going on. There still is time for love, and happy family moments. But there is always a twist to remind you what the big picture is in this story. The plot would seem crazy but everything really flows. What I don't like is how the story is told. In third person. I like first or second but I hate third person stories. I really don't like that Janie and Reeve are broken up, because he's been there from the beginning. First as a friend then boyfriend. And even though they aren't together, he still is there for her. So that shows a lot and I think they will eventually get back together. When I think Bout Janie's living situation, with her fake parents rather than the real parents. I'm torn. Because iw understand that you grew up with this family practically all your life. But I also feel sad for the other parents. Because they finally found their daughter. And they can't have her. They vist and talk over phones but they will never be a real family. But in the book. The real parents are okay with janie living with her fake parents.

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