Sunday, April 27, 2014

The BABY FARM by Karen Harper *****

This was about underground baby selling. People steal newborns from poor people and sell them to richer people. I guess there are enough real life stories to make this a current topic. Was good reading in general, but the midwife is very flaky, one minute likes the new doctor, then hates him, likes her adoptive mom then hates her. Lots of that going around.

I don't really know why her brother and dad were in jail. Emma's mom died in a tractor accident; her home was burned down by some guy named Sam working for Dehia (her adoptive mom involved in the baby scam). So if there was an explanation for why dad/son are in jail it now eludes me.

Written well, good personalities of each person who aren't easily forgotten, so even tho there were quite a few people in the novel it wasn't difficult keeping track.

Not a murder mystery by any means. Left without knowing who shot out her tires, where the baby of Jidge came from, which was her sole means for being in the novel. Got no clue about that one. These baby snatchers get into a hospital and fool around with medicine and intravenous tubes when they're total hicks from the boondocks. I would buy it but be disappointed it wasn't a murder mystery even tho the library slapped a mystery sticker on it.

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