Emma's Secret

I was really looking forward to Steena Homles sequel to the outstanding ‘Finding Emma', I couldn't wait to read more about Jack and his relationship with Emmie, the little girl he'd been lead to believe was his granddaughter.

This book picks up a few months after the end of ‘Finding Emma' whereby Emma is back with her family and they are all trying to move on from her disappearance. Her papa Jack is left alone following the death of his beloved Dottie and the loss of Emmie.

Again in this book I struggled a little with the lead character Megan, Emma's mother. She still comes across as quite self involved and a little unaware of the feelings of others. I found myself feeling real sympathy with her husband Peter, in whom she seemed to have very little faith and her best friend Laurie who seemed to have to constantly tiptoe around her friend.

Taking this aside though I loved in this book what I loved about the first - the relationship between Jack & Emmie and the emotion that Jack is going through. He is an exceptionally well written character, he evokes such emotion and you genuinely want things to work out for him. That Emma's father in this novel see's his good heart and the way in which he loves his daughter and makes her happy was lovely. I wanted more of this.

Dottie is still prevalent in the book through her journals and this ties it all back to book 1. It is a satisfying sequel but didn't feel like a conclusion, the way it ended suggested there might be more to come and I personally would love to read more about Jack & Emmie and so long as we can pick up with Megan being in the place she is at the end of the book I would like to read more about her also.