Reviews for Look Again

The average rating for Look Again based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-06-12 00:00:00 Marci Hughes Intrigued by the ethical premise but fell short in the unbelievable and predictable delivery. Title should be "Try Again". Legal and emotional thriller of an adoptive mom seeing an age progressed photo of her son on a post card and her efforts to discover if her worst fears are true. Didn't hate it so much as didn't necessarily like it either. Noticed some editing errors which for me is always supremely distracting especially in a less than engaging story. ***Spoiler Alert*** As for characters, I was disappointed there as well. Did anyone else notice how extremely verbal and precocious a barely turned three year old Will was? Connie, the long suffering always available perfect sitter...whatever. That one character alone is enough to piss off all your single mother readers. Next, making it so easy to naturally pull for the heroine is the gambling, unfaithful, spoiled birth mother and the arrogant, unreasonable, philanderer husband. Throw in a stalking killer psychopath who has never been caught and a gratuitous sex scene with a hot Latin lover and we have the makings of a made for TV Lifetime movie of the week. Problem is if I'm not thinking big screen then it's obvious that this story has too many flaws making it unworthy of more. A couple of storyline issues: How did lowlife Beach man always know at the exact moment when a character was going to put two and two together and find them instantaneously just in time to kill them? The murder of the lawyer was the flimsiest. What purpose did this serve? Just because maybe she might find out? Then he would also need to off the judge, social workers, nurses, doctors, and basically anyone who was involved with Timothy/Will from the hospital and adoption proceedings. Why did she agree that she was having an affair? Or was that a red herring? Never explained. Why kill Amy now? She's known all along. Puzzler. I don't mind sex scenes especially with a Latin hottie however the timing of this one was bizarre. Woman is about to lose everything, (job, child, life) but right before she sneaks off to the doom she all of a sudden realizes is coming, she squeezes in a quickie. Right, cause that's what most of us would do facing the same conundrum. I totally understand how someone would be haunted by something so much so that they are afraid to verbalize it in the beginning. But how did Ellen not have one freaking friend to confide in especially after her Florida trip? Her lack of communication throughout annoyed me. Guess she wasn't that close to Courtney after all because she never gave her a second thought after she was fired. Last and most deflating was the entirely predictable and implausible ending. Of course, birth mom will be killed defending her son. Naturally, she will have no parents or siblings to muddy the waters. And of course, dad is not the biological dad because that will easily clear the path for the heroine to win her child back. I'm not a legal expert but I see MAJOR issues with Ellen's adoption being valid period. It was an illegal adoption since Amy was not related to him in any way, legally or biologically and she KIDNAPPED him with Beach bum. Hello? Secondly, if Bill is listed as Timothy's father on the birth certificate then he is legally the dad, biology or not. Remember this man also raised him as his own for just as long as Ellen did and he has just as much right to claim him as she does. What, is she the only one who has parental feelings beyond DNA? Weird how possessive the author portrayed Bill when he reunites with Timothy/Will and then just as quickly relinquishes said child, the son he was almost destroyed after losing the first time, over some missing DNA in his blood? Ridiculous. Fast read. Could be used as a vacation or beach book that you wouldn't be too broken up about if you lost or damaged it on the trip. Or like I said at the beginning, Try Again.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-01 00:00:00 Peter Forster What a mess. This was my first Lisa Scottoline book, and it'll probably also be my last. This book was just... all over the place. I can't think of a single thing that I can say I actually liked about it, besides the fact that it's over. This book was like being hit over the head with... well, all of the things. My brain is now mush. So, here's what I got out of this book. Ellen Gleeson, a REPORTER, sees a age-progressed missing child picture on one of those cards they send you in the mail, and it looks EXACTLY like HER adopted SON, Will, who she adopted. Not close, not 'sorta looks like him', not 'could be brothers'... EXACTLY like him. (That creepy guy in the trenchcoat taking pictures from across the street last week? NOT a creeper after all... but a time traveler snagging a picture so that he can go back to the past and call it "age-progression". What? Time travelling photographers are more realistic than most of what happened in this book.) Anyway, so Ellen, the REPORTER, has this little WHO IS MY BABY? earwig burrowing into her mind and can't let it go. OH! And did I mention that she's a REPORTER, but that her newspaper could be firing her because layoffs, and she thinks her boss with an accent is hot, and he thinks SHE is hot, and she doesn't get fired in the first round where her boss sermonizes about how much he loves the REPORTER business for 45 minutes of completely pointless time except to show that he's a GOOD GUY WITH A HEART OF GOLD, but maybe later in the month it'll be her time, so she should do her job and not be distracted or miss deadlines or not file the story she's given to REPORT, or take vacation... which she does, but it's ok because GOOD GUY WITH A HEART OF GOLD REPORTER boss doesn't fire her ever. LUCKY and completely REALISTIC. Ellen is probably the BEST reporter I've ever seen. She asks all the right questions and doesn't jump to any conclusions. But even if she did, it would be OK because all of her stories are about the same thing (HERSELF) so they are all the BEST stories because since she adopted her son, WILL, she's got MOMMY MAGIC so she doesn't need to be good at anything else! Like REPORTING. MOMMY MAGIC means you can just FEEL the right thing at all times, and makes critical thinking, good judgement, and rationality invalid. Case in point: - Sledding = DANGER! - Running with a plastic lightsaber = DANGER! - Driving at high speeds, while texting, at night, in 8 inches of snow & blizzard conditions = perfectly fine because MOMMY MAGIC! - MOM JEANS. MOMMY MAGIC also means never having to decide anything ever. On the back of this book, LOOK AGAIN, by LISA SCOTTOLINE, it says that there's a MORAL DILEMMA. That is wrong. There is no moral dilemma because MOMMY MAGIC! Everything that ELLEN, the MOMMY, thinks about has already been decided for her by outside forces of EVIL, named Sarah Liu. But we can't feel sorry for SARAH LIU, because she's only EVIL because she's a CUTTHROAT REPORTER who is secretly caring for her husband who has MS, so that is why she had to BETRAY her fellow REPORTER, Ellen, who is a mommy like SARAH, who also has MOMMY MAGIC, in order to get ONE MILLION DOLLARS. That is also why SARAH quit her job as a REPORTER, because ONE MILLION DOLLARS is a lot of money and will support a family of 4, ESPECIALLY one with man who has a serious illness FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. There is no need to work. WILL, Ellen's son, named Will, who is adopted, and also had heart problems from before he was adopted to be Ellen's son, also has MOMMY MAGIC, in that because he says "Mommy!" a lot, that makes him, Will, Ellen's son. Ellen's adopted son, WILL, is precocious and very intelligent and can TRACE ALL BY HIMSELF. He is THREE YEARS OLD and talks like he is 6 years old. This proves that ELLEN, Will's MOMMY, is a good mommy because he is ADVANCED. THINGS HAPPEN. MOMMY MAGIC means that nobody can say this book is bad because EMOTIONS. ELLEN, WILL'S MOMMY, is proven to be his MOMMY because other people are BAD and GREEDY and don't deserve him, and she WINS. But she's NICE so she lets the LOSER visit because she knows that MOMMY MAGIC means that she will never lose her child, Will, who she adopted, and is now her son who calls her MOMMY. ALSO, ELLEN, Will's mommy, has sex in Chapter 69 with her GOOD GUY WITH A HEART OF GOLD REPORTER boss who then proposes to her because after having sex one time they are beyond dating and already know everything there is to know about each other and he knows that they will have a happy and wonderful life together after their WEDDING, during which he will be granted DADDY MAGIC and be invincible too. The end.