Synopsis: FROM 1980 TO 1992, A TURBULENT CIVIL WAR ravaged the Central American state of El Salvador, claiming the lives of approximately 75,000 Salvadorans. It is called The Little Breadwinner: War and Survival in the Salvadoran Heartland by Lucia Mann. You can buy this book on Amazon and find it on Goodreads.ĭisclaimer: I read this book because I wanted to and was in no way compensated for my review.Īn author and friend of mine recently released another book that you should check out. I really look forward to picking up another book by Lisa and can’t wait to see what thriller she has next for me! That only made the book better for me because I have found an author that will go to those dark places and make the thrillers they right that much more scary. I did kind of call what was going to happen because my mind is dark and I was kind of joking when I said it but then it turned out to be what happened which was even creepier. You get to see the grieving mother trying to find her daughter and the daughter’s perspective of what is happening to her. It was done really well by telling the story from the perspectives of Ellie and Laurel. I felt so many emotions through this book and was so drawn in with it. This book had me pulled in from start to finish and I found myself wanting to jump back into it every time I had to put the book down to do other things. What happened to Ellie? Where did she go? Who still has secrets to hide?Īll I can say is Wow! This was my first time picking up a thriller book by Lisa Jewell and I can gladly say that I will be reading more by this author. And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back. Poppy is precocious and pretty – and meeting her completely takes Laurel’s breath away.īecause Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie when she was that age. It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.Īnd then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet.īefore too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.

She was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl.

She was gone book