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Farrows stepdaughter from a previous marriage, Abby, arrives at her doorstep with the stunning news that Jills exhusband has passed away, And further, Abby believes that her father was murdered,

Jills already complicated life suddenly becomes more complicated, Against the wishes of her new fiancé Sam, Jill begins to look into the circumstances of her ex husbands death, She is concerned abut Abby and her sister and how they are handling the death, As she continues to investigate, she begins to suspect that she is being followed, and that perhaps she, and her daughters, might be in danger,

COME HOME is a thriller with chases, twists, and hints of conspiracies, and it succeeds as that, Ms. Scottolines novels are usually faced paced and exciting,

But COME HOME is about more than that, It examines the concept of family and family responsibilities, Jill leads a hectic life, She is a pediatrician for a medical firm and the case of one of her infant patients occupies her time, She has a thirteenyearold daughter Megan from her first marriage who is dealing with the typical problems of a new teenager, Jills first husband had passed away and Megan basically knew only her stepfather as her parent, That stepfather has now died, giving Megan, and Jill, new issues to deal with, Jill has two stepdaughters from the second marriage, Abby and Victoria, each dealing in opposite ways with their fathers death,

But theres even more, Jills relationship with her fiancé Sam is strained because he does not like her spending so much time worrying about Abby and Victoria and looking into the death of her previous husband.
She should be thinking more about them and their new life together, Oh, and Sam has a son who will become part of her new family, if they form a new family,
Here's the thing about Come Home: taken on its own, it's a good book, Nothing lifechanging, slightly forgettable, but a good solid piece of fiction on similar footing with Jodi Picoult, with reasonably threedimensional characters, a decent plot, good writing, and great momentum, plus a little more depth than the cheesy cover would imply.
Should that be the end of it I don't know,

Here's the problem with Come Home: it reads like it and Save Me, also by Scottoline, were entries for a writing contest with very narrow restrictions: book must be about a suburban mom who finds herself in over her head solving crime, a schoolaged daughter, a trusty dog with a funny name, a husband/fiance who wants her to leave the mystery alone, corporate corruption, someone who spends most of the book irate with her, and an ending of a certain sort that I won't give away here.
Would both books be solid submissions Absolutely, But they're almost the exact same book,

I'm not sure if this holds for Scottoline's other books, but for me the bottom line at this point is that she's a good author, but I'd really like to see her extend her skills beyond the same formula, even if it's a good one.
I felt like this was a book version of a die hard movie, Full of action, drama and so unbelievable in places! Nevertheless a good read with never a dull moment, Normally I love Lisa Scottoline books, This one is thest one that made me wish I hadn't spent time reading it, The characters seemed very whiny amp clueless about what was going on in their lives, They also had some major personality changes during the course of the book which really annoyed me amp took away from what plot was actually there, Everything seems forced amp rushed except for the dramas between characters,
I enjoy reading Lisa Scottoline's books because she writes strong, independent woman characters, This book had no one like that,


I started the book as an audiobook but quickly changed to the print edition, The narrator made the characters even more whiny amp pathetic, If you really want to read this book, borrow it because it's not worth buying at all, Then find one of the earlier books amp really enjoy a good story with fantastic characters, Another great book. Full of suspense, not very realistic, but who cares, keeps your interest,

Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce, She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills herthough it is stressfuland her daughter, Megan, is a happily overscheduled thirteenyearold juggling homework and the swim team.

But Jills life is turned upside down when her exstepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news: Jills exhusband is dead, Abby insists that he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer, Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few inquiries and discovers that things dont add up, As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hardearned happiness, and even endanger her own life, Yet Jill cant turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own,
Come Home reads with the breakneck pacing of a thriller while also exploring the definition of motherhood, asking the questions: Do you ever stop being a mother Can you ever have an exchild What are the limits to love of family
I have always been a fan of Lisa Scottoline's books ever since I picked up her book "Daddy's Girl" and from then on I read my way through her legal thrillers.
Her latest two novels

though have been different , though they still have a heavy legal focus, The way they have been written have reminded me of Jane Green with the strong emotional bonds and in a way Come Home reminded me of A Patchwork Marriage by Jane Green and of Jodi Picoult's with the touching and writing of strong issues that surround families.

Come Home tells the tale of Jill who years ago had what she thought was the perfect family for her and her daughter Megan, A father William Skyler and two stepsisters Victoria and Abby, Everything was fine until a deep betrayal hit Jill and forced Jill and William to separate, Jill took off with Megan and William and his two daughters went their separate ways, Now years later Jill is living her life with her great fiancé Sam and her daughter Megan, they are finally a family, Nothing can break what they have or will their relationship crumble , when Jill receives a knock and a blast from the past, It's her exstepdaughter Abby , her father has been murdered yet it has been ruled as a suicide and she wants Jill to help her solve the case, Can Jill stand by and let Abby get hurt even more or will she decide to help Abby The decision starts to cause a major rift between Sam and Jill as Sam believes that Abby is no longer Jill's responsibility but can someone who you have looked after and mothered be turned away, is it really possible to switch off the emotion of caring and helping them
As Jill and Abby get along the investigation, it seems somebody wants them to stop and unless they stop , they may end up like William Skyler dead six feet under.

Can Jill stop her investigation and be there for her daughter Megan or will Jill realise that as Megan is her daughter, so is Abby and Victoria in their own ways.

Come Home holds that mystery element but is really aimed at the theme of "When is enough , enough and what lengths would you go to save your child or someone you once loved , even if they aren't your own flesh and blood "
A great story that readers of Jane Green , Jodi Picoult , Rosamund Lupton and Lesley Pearse will enjoy.
Quick review for a somewhat lengthy read, I'm actually asking myself in the hours after finishing the book: What on Earth did I just read

I haven't read many of Lisa Scottoline's books, but admittedly it's been a while and this is the most recent example I can go on.
It's definitely not the first book I would recommend anyone read from this author, I feel like it was an entertaining read but also a complete waste of time, That sounds like a contradiction in itself, but I'll explain shortly, So much of this book annoyed me to heck and back mostly for how over the top and noncohesive it was, The dialogue in some stretches is completely unrealistic and cringeworthy, I guess the entertaining aspect of it lies in that it plays out like a soap opera with the main character running to and fro searching for answers that absolutely no one asked, and one calamity building upon another to ramp up the action and conflict to march forcefully through its conclusion.
There are times when I like this kind of story if it can poke fun at itself or just proves entertaining to watch with the characters who make the story more than the bones it stands upon.
But "Come Home" was the true definition of a false advertisement of a book if I ever started one,

The story centers around Jill, a pediatrician who's adjusting to life with a new fiance and her daughter, Yet, Abby, Jill's estranged exstepdaughter comes bounding to her doorstep one rainy night to proclaim that her father's dead and that someone killed him, This sets off a chain of events that lead to Abby's disappearance, and Jill's desperate search to find her, Only the search for Abby takes up a good portion of this story, but it's just one thread among several microconflicts that don't really reach satisfying conclusions, "Come Home" dangles false carrots of conflict in front of you, leading you in one direction, but just when you reach a climatic point that promises some answers, the answers lead in another direction that doesn't really have much to do with the original thread of conflict and seems to get weaker and less intriguing as it goes on.
I felt like part of it was Jill's utter recklessness and stupidity in approaching every mystery around her, and what she finds just happens to hit the mark in some way without really having any kind of payoff.


In retrospect, I really didn't like most of the characters in this novel, including Jill, I did like Sam and Jill's friend mostly because they were the ones who had the most sense, but everyone else was annoying as heck in speaking voice as well as contributing to the microconflicts and unreliable narrators here.
I wish I could've believed in them or had a good laugh at them, but in the end, the dramatics were lain on far too thick and the characters far too grating for me to enjoy this more.
I will say it kept me reading and wanting to see what would happen, but I took far too much time on the audiobook and overarching story than the story paid off in the experience.
I probably wouldn't pick up this book again, once was enough,

Overall score:./stars. My first Scottoline was a lukewarm success, Although I quite liked the MC, Dr, Jill Farrow, and her minor complications a doctor who actually wants to treat her patients and not focus on the soulless business structure of the practice, a woman with an exhusband who just died and"ex" stepdaughters both of whom she craved communication from, but was turned away after a lie from their father, if I hadn't had ample time over the weekend for an audiobook, I might not have slogged through to the end waiting for something to happen.
I had some higher expectations of action based on Scottoline's reputation so I was frustrated with the tedium as Jill slowly falls down the rabbit hole trying to uncover what was possibly a nefarious death, rather than an overdose.


One of her former stepdaughters approaches Jill in her new life, with her daughter and fiancé, and is bereft and suspicious, sparking a curiosity in Jill which persists even when her new relationship, her practice, even her life, are all threatened.
She refuses to stop investigating once she's started a respectable quality and at that point I was on the edge of my seat, finally excited for a delectable end.
I sort of got it, There were several intense chapters as the story concluded but I put it down wondering if I actually believed this woman would have really done what she did in order to nail down what happened to her ex, if she really had it in her.
I can't even bring myself to give this book one star, I've read all of her books related to the law firm and love them, She has since detoured from this series and seems to be writing about her life as a mother and relationships with children, I'm not a mother of anything destined to walk onlegs but I was a child once with a mother so I think I'm capable of relating, if just a little bit.
And I've been a stepchild a few times,

This story line is a bad fantasy that consistently brought to mind a Lifetime movie, I'm not a fan of Lifetime movies, An engaged pediatrician with ayear old daughter gets pulled into a murder mystery surrounding her dirt bag ex husband, I found the defense of her actions to be weak and the theme of "mom as superhero" to be trite, Her step children are characterized as angry, immature people who are technically adults but will always remain children in the eyes of a loved one, Why she treats them as such I don't know, Every misjudged, misunderstood character does a miraculousby the close of the book, Every aspect is tied up neatly in a bow with the most outlandish conclusions given,

I can tell that I'm not enjoying a book when the actions of the main character make me aggravated, Her search for the truth resulted in her making stupid decisions time and again with the excuse that she was helping her step daughters, When the main character has to make up excuses you know it's not going well,

Pediatrician/mom turned detective for the love of her children has the potential to work I suppose but certainly not in this case, This book seems to be a gift to her a stepchildren and its a nice gesture but she could have done so much better, .