It’s got to be hard on Jenna but then again she never really got to know her dad because of it. Most people would struggle to come to terms with that sort of thing. His life’s work gone his friend dead and his wife missing. So your thinking ok Jenna was living with her gran but where was dad? Dad is in a mental institution unable to move on from the day his life came crashing down. Jenna’s grandma wasn’t all that helpful in her search but that remained true to her character from Larger than life. She was 3 when her mother disappeared yet she knew stuff she shouldn’t due to her age at the time her mum disappeared. Finally I was getting better and as I did my wish to find Alice echoed Jenna’s. It would appear after 50% and the elephant trivia started to fade and the story started to take over and shockingly my cold started to dissipate. It never made any sense to him how this case played out and it was the case he always wished he could have finished properly.īefore the 50% mark I went through the book in a slow way thanks to a cold I like to call the plague. Virgil was the detective on scene when Jenna’s mother went missing. Serenity is a psychic hired mostly because Jenna is scared her mother is dead and this is the only way to contact her but also to help see if any clues can be found with Serenity’s abilities. She enlists Serenity and Virgil to help her. This story is all about Jenna and her search for her mother. I thought that it would be too much and at times it was distracting from the overall story but on the whole it was well placed and I could see past the times when I wanted less elephant information and more of the search for Alice.

Even Jenna’s chapters at the beginning tell you more about elephants than Alice. Almost 40% of the book is detailed information about elephant grief and Alice’s research. This book like Larger Than Life has a lot of elephant trivia. I liked both these women and looked forward to finding out more about their lives after the novellas. I had got to know Serenity and Alice from a time before Jenna was born. I read both of these earlier in the year and reviewed Where There’s Smoke.

Where There’s Smoke and Larger Than Life.

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult follows her two novellas also released this year.

The Gift by Joanne Clancy