I am not leaving a review due to the fact that this book did not interest me enough to finish the story.

This is a thoughtful and well written novel that's highly emotional. The characters are well drawn and most importantly done in shades of gray. Thanks to netgalley for the ARC.

It's ok if you don't love me back. I have enough for the both of us.


Mother and daughter relationship. It can be a love/hate relationship. "I love my mom," "I hate my mom," "My mom never lets me do anything". "My mom doesn't understand me". But what happens when your two year old daughter is taken from you and 14 years later you find yourself at a coffee shop face to face with the daughter that you thought you would never see again.

The Broussard family is about to go through a roller coaster of emotions. The what if's, and how come, and I thought, and this is not how it is supposed to be. Harper, Remy and their daughters JoJo and Georgina's account of how families go thru crisis with their emotions.

Harper and Remy are divorced after their daughter Georgina's abduction. They couldn't bear each other's pain but loved each other fiercely. Their arrangement is unconventional as they live only blocks away and have dinner several times a week. The pain of losing a daughter and not knowing is to much to bear. But this arrangement works for the family that they have left.

When Harper spots Georgina working at a neighborhood coffee shop, she is beside herself. When it is confirmed that she is her daughter and her daughter is taken from the home that she has always known, emotions on both sides are on high alert. What do you call the parents that birthed you? How are you supposed to feel about the woman who abducted you but you only know as mom.

Faulker details every emotion that you are right there with her characters that you have grown to feel for. Sometimes you find yourself saying to Mother Harper get a grip or Father Remy, get over yourself. But you also know that these are real feelings. Whether they are right or wrong, they are feelings that anyone of us goes thru. It makes you take notice of what others might feel in that given situation. I know it did me. I was not abducted, but I came to live with my mother and her family after 10 years of living with my dad and his new family. I could empathize with this family on both fronts. As a mom, loving your child so much you stifle them, wanting to protect them, and over analyzing everything. And as a daughter, how do I love a family that I have no history with. What is my place. I liked how family counseling was put at the forefront in this story.

With all families there are many hurdles and I think anyone could relate to this to some level. It will leave you laughing and in tears as families do. I highly recommend.

A Special Thank You to Kensington Books and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

I loved the premise of this book! Kidnapped child - mom runs into her and is reunited 14 years later - and then the drama of trying to fit back together as a family. I TRIED so hard to not dislike the kidnapper because of the circumstances which caused her to take baby Georgina, but it didn't work. I love Remy for most of the book - but by the end - I found him to be selfish. I LOVED Harper and totally understand her character, her fears and her tendency to over-smother. While I liked this book -I feel that she totally got the short end of the stick. I received a digital copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest opinion.

Started this but can not finish. Hated the beginning.

Finding Georgina is a solid 4.5 star read. Colleen Faulkner does a wonderful job giving us a ringside seat to a family drama that most of us can only pray we never experience. Georgina, taken as a toddler, is finally found at the age of 16 and life as her real family knows it is about to be perfect, right???

This story examines the situation from JoJo's viewpoint (the 2 year younger sister), Harper's (the mother) and Georgina / Lilla (name give by the woman who took her.) It's a good look at how life might change if this happened to someone now.

My biggest issue in the book was Harper. I found her very self-centered and extremely unable to compromise. Of course, I haven't lived this situation and so I might very well have turned into a Harper although I hope not.

I really liked JoJo, the younger sister who is suddenly expected to accept her sister with open arms and like they were the best sister-friends ever. That would be hard for anyone to do, especially someone who had gotten used to being the only child.

Remy, in my opinion, was just a jerk. He might have been part of the reason for Harper being Harper, but I doubt he had much to do with her attitude.

I loved Harper's friend whose name I have now forgotten. She was down to earth, had lots of good suggestions and tried hard to help normalize life for JoJo and Georgina.

All in all a very good look at the story of what if a stolen child were to be found much later. I would definitely recommend this book! Thanks to the publisher, author and Netgalley for allowing me an early copy.

Finding Georgina by Colleen Faulkner

What if:
*Your toddler was taken from you fourteen years ago?
*You believed she was dead but never truly gave up hoping she was not?
*You believed you had found your child, now sixteen, and she did not at all resemble the memory of her you have kept alive?
*You were faced with integrating you long-lost daughter back into a family with members that have changed – perhaps just as much she has?

How would you cope?
How would the father of your lost child cope?
How would your other-daughter cope?
How would your lost-daughter cope?

This story is told from the viewpoints of
*The mother: Harper
*The unlost-sister: Josephine-Jojo
*The lost-sister: Georgina-Lilla

The emotions are raw, the characters are fully fleshed out, the issues are real, and the dynamics are difficult, the story is not easy reading. The author has done a good job of telling the “what if” story that should have a happy ending for all but makes the reader really look at “what if”…

I had a bit of trouble with Harper…she seemed to be a needy, demanding, controlling sort of helicopter mother. I can see why, in some ways, Remy made the choices he did about his wife but can’t really figure out his reasoning or “needs” in relationship to the family he helped create. I found Jojo to be well portrayed as a somewhat rebellious teenager – not unexpected with Harper as her mother. I found Georgina-Lilla to be an emotionally mature and strong young woman who did her best when she found herself in a very difficult situation. I enjoyed peeking in on the sisters as they learned to know and deal with one another. Having no idea what a REAL family has to contend with if/when they are reconnected with a lost child that was taken so young and kept so many years I am unsure how realistic this story is but it did make me think and ponder and wonder just how I would react if I found myself in any one of the characters’ shoes.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4-5 Stars

Imagine, a parent's worst nightmare...their child abducted during a family outing. Fast forward 14 years and Harper runs into this girl who looks eerily like her family and then everything is turned upside down. I enjoyed reading this book but I had a few questions that I wish were addressed (spoilers ahead)...why did Sharon bring Lilla back to the city she was abducted from? So close to where she knew her family lived? What was up with Remy's ability to only be a part-time dad/husband and everyone being ok with it? I would have loved to have an epilogue which touched base with the family a year or two after Lilla/Georgina comes home just to see how this story fully unfolded as I felt a bit disappointed with the ending. I did love how the book was told through multiple different viewpoints which added nice depth to the story.