No Time to Wave Goodbye

My Twitter addiction provided me with the opportunity to obtain an advance reading copy of No Time to Wave Goodbye by Jaquelyn Mitchard. I've been waiting years for this book, which is the sequel to Mitchard's bestseller The Deep End of the Ocean. Unfortunately, I was disappointed.

In Deep End, we meet the Cappadora family whose 3 year old son Ben was kidnapped from a hotel lobby. The sequel picks up 22 years later. Ben is now married and a new father. His brother Vincent makes documentary films and is the family slacker and parents Beth and Pat still own an Italian restaurant.

I couldn't wait to settle on the couch and see how this family had survived since I last visited with them. But as the plot unfolded, I was dumbfounded. Vincent has made a documentary about Ben's kidnapping. After it wins an Academy Award, Ben's daughter is kidnapped. Sound familiar? So did the rest of the book.

I finished No Time to Wave Goodbye because I agreed to when I accepted the advance reader copy. But if it was my purchase, I would have passed.