A Welcome Reunion
Ratings26
Average rating3.4
3 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I read and loved The Perfect Child even though it ended ambiguously. I was excited to see what happened after. This takes place 12/13 years after the events in The Perfect Child and Janie is all grown up and back out in the world.
I think what I needed was for this to be longer! I was getting invested and then BOOM. It ended. I did have to remind myself it was a short story but I was already so invested from the first book.
There are some things that annoyed me within the book. Mostly with Cole's reaction to everything and how he was handling things I felt were much more ... out of depth for a 12 year old?
Overall, it left me wanting more. Still happy to get some conclusions so 3 stars it is.
3.5⭐️
Janie has been haunting my dreams ever since I first read the perfect child but tbh, this short story did not help the fear because I found out the only thing I fear more than child psychopaths is adult psychopaths
3.5 this was a 5 star up until that ending. I was actually enjoying this more than The Perfect Child. It wrapped up WAY to quick and felt like it wrapped up too early and i felt like i needed more from the story and wished it was a few pages longer!
I was so happy to see a follow up story about Janie and the Bauers, and it's just as twisted as I expected it to be!
Although I enjoyed it, I wish it hadn't ended with Hannah/Piper killing Janie, I wanted Hannah to get her revenge in a better way. I understand her motivation was her son's life being in danger but I just wanted it to be more satisfying.