After her husband's death, a woman with amnesia discovers evidence of a missing child. She takes her young son and investigates, following clues to San Francisco and, eventually, to a previous husband and daughter, while teasing out clues to her missing memories and chaotic feelings.
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4 primary books5 released booksAgainst All Odds is a 5-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Claudia Y. Burgoa, Elisabeth Naughton, and Claudia Bellante.
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The book had a good premise and it kept me turning the (admittedly electronic) pages trying to figure out who was responsible for Annie/Kate's amnesia. Ryan acted like a jerky alpha hero for too much of the book, although I was glad to see that Kate didn't take any BS from him.
Some minor spoilers follow in my discussion of the book's weaknesses.
But there were two things that detracted from my enjoyment. First, there was almost no acknowledgement that any of this would have been difficult for Kate's son, Reed. Oh, he's only 4 years old, so he immediately accepts Ryan as his Dad and doesn't mind that he is passed off to grandparents he has never met every time Kate and Ryan want to be alone together? I don't think so! Also, what about Kate's parents? We never see the reunion between parents and daughter or have any insight into how either party feels. Does Kate like her parents? Does she blame them for not finding her sooner? How do the parents feel to see their child return from the dead?A lot of pages and plot are devoted to Julia, Ryan's daughter, but it's as if the author decided that she didn't want to give the kid plot too much attention so she just shuffled Reed off into a corner. Ditto with the impact of Kate's reappearance on her parents.
Regardless of these weaknesses, it was a fun guilty pleasure read and a good Amazon freebie.
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