Christine’s Odyssey
J.L. Campbell
ISBN: B00C1JU8F0
Publisher: The Writer’s Suite
Pages: 238
Genre: MG/YA/Realistic Fiction
Release Date: November 7th, 2013
Plot Summary:
Raised in a hotbed of arguments and fights, eleven-year-old Christine Simms is the victim of her mother’s temper and cruelty. A domestic dispute ends in tragedy, sending the family into a tailspin.
A shocking discovery sends Christine on a quest to find the stranger who left her behind in Jamaica. Determined to unravel the mystery of her birth, Christine uses every tool at her disposal and treads with courage where no child should.
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My Review
I truly liked this book. J.L. Campbell is obviously a very gifted writer because I was hooked from the very start. It was so heartbreaking at points, especially the tragedy that happened for such young children. it was awful but the author really portrayed it well. Ma’am was a horrible mother and wife but she was such a complicated character that I wanted to learn more about her frame of mind from the time she met Maxwell. It’s easy to call her selfish but I still wanted to delve deeper into her character. Which is my same feeling for Maxwell, I wanted to know even more about him and what made him make the choices he made like staying with a woman who obviously disliked his daughter, and having even more children with her.
Even at the end though and Christine got everything she wanted to be happy, I was still so sad for the rest of the kids 😦 It was a great book thoughand I would highly recommend it!
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Author Information
Biography
J.L. Campbell is an award-winning, Jamaican writer who is always on the look-out for story-making material. She writes romantic suspense, women’s fiction and young adult novels. She is the author of A Baker’s Dozen-13 Steps to Distraction, Absolution, Anya’s Wish, Chasing Anya, Christine’s Odyssey, Contraband, Dissolution, Distraction, Don’t Get Mad…Get Even, Kicked to the Kerb, Grudge, Hardware (written under the pen name Jayda McTyson) Saving Sam, Taming Celeste and Retribution. Her Amazon author page is here.
Visit her on the web at http://www.joylcampbell.com You can also connect with her on Twitter @JL_Campbell or on Facebook.
Author Links
Website: Official Blog
Facebook: Jamaican Kid Lit Page
Twitter: @JL_Campbell
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February 22, 2015 at 4:57 pm
Tamara, thank you ever so much for your review of Christine’s Odyssey. It was challenging to wrote but I was happy to give Christine a happy ending. Thanks again for reading and reviewing.
March 2, 2015 at 9:23 am
anytime, JL!! you’re book was wonderful! xoxo