Missing Parts

By: Lucinda Berry

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Growing up abandoned by her father and raised by a single mother, Celeste was determined to create the perfect family - but even perfect families have secrets. Her days are filled with a rewarding career, a devoted husband, and her 4-year-old daughter. Celeste is the only one who knows the precarious house of cards her family is built upon - until the day her daughter falls critically ill.

Then her world quickly spirals out of control, her secret threatening to destroy her marriage, family, reputation, and sanity. She’ll go to any lengths to protect her family - take any risk, break any law - anything except tell the truth.

©2016 Lucinda Berry (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Tough story. Tough choices. Superb moral!

📚Honest Review📚

Missing Parts by @lucindaberryauthor takes the reader by the hand through a highly sensitive topics. However difficult, the author makes it naturally and the MC are relatable and deep.

Nothing about this story is simple. The reader needs to follow as there are also many changes in the setting.

In every change of setting a new story and a different POV and more characters to keep providing the MC with the tools she needs to survive and cope with her traumas.

When it comes to the resolution, there is nothing emotionally easy about it. There are extremely tough choices to be made and a very strong sense of being true to our own nature without trying to fit where we don’t anymore.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 It’s a must read!

Predictable

So very predictable…. The storyline could have been a worthy investment but, the characters are so unrealistic in behavior and thought that it was ruined. It was made more frustrating by the reader’s overly theatrical performance of what was already over the top writing. The oft repeated “…electricity shot through my body…” is her favorite exclamation right after, “…my heart froze…” and other very common / pedestrian / boring snippets. Disappointing.

Very good!

Lucinda Berry has done it again. This was a wonderful story, a well-unfolded plot, and did not drag on. At many points, I found myself wondering whose side I was on- feeling the highs and lows of the narrator, who would rather not share them with us.

Another Superb Novel!

I had read Lucinda’s book, “A Perfect Child,” and found it to be a fabulous read! Thus, I looked for another one of her books and this was also, SUPERB! I tend to read books by DeMille and Grisham, so this was a completely different experience for me. Yet, I loved both of these books by Lucinda and would highly recommend each of them. Great reads from a new author that I will be following….

WOW

totally a good book. I absolutely didn't wanna stop listening. I just wanted to see what happened next all the time. I love books that are never boring.

Somewhat boring!

The story itself was good but not on the top of my list for great. The reader was good for the main character but all the other ones that she played made me not likie this book. There have been very few women readers that can duplicate a man's voice well. And this one definitely is in that category of me not wanting to continue to listen when she was trying to be a male voice.

This story was…interesting

This book started out interesting, the main character seemed to be in the throes of her everyday life just living like what seemed to be her workaholic self and balancing friendship and family. Suddenly her child takes a turn for the worse and gets awfully sick, and it comes out that her husband didn’t father her child and her child is a gift from her boss after he raped her at a convention four years ago. Unable to cope with telling her friends and family her traumatic story, she drunkenly kills her boss(or so she thinks), shaves her head and runs away from her life for a year. Her husband and best friend start a relationship in her absence and she’s completely dead to her family and friends after her return. I just don’t understand what the reason for any of that was? She could’ve just shared her story with people that love her?

Sooooooo good!! WOW!!

WOW!!!! A twist you can’t see coming! The end of part two was one of the best twists I’ve ever read! Ever!!

Abby Craden’s performance was incredible. I cannot say enough positive things about her narration.

This book is incredible and I suggest you get it!

The ending wasn't what I’d have hoped, I couldn't relate to it. But, not all endings have to be what we’d think they are. Didn't take anything away from the story at all.

Umh????

I forced myself to finish. It was blah. I expected more from how it was rated.

Narration improves the story

1.5 STARS

When Celeste’s daughter life is endangered, secrets come to light that cause ripples throughout the lives of everyone she knows.

Lucinda Berry is usually a five star read for me, so giving MISSING PARTS such a low review pains me. Aside from great writing and Celeste’s complexity, I dislike the reading reading MISSING PARTS. She made so many uninformed decisions with her friends and family, choices with potentially catastrophic consequences. I sympathized with the raw deal life handed her, understood why she became so but couldn’t get myself to root for her. I rooted for her to make less destructive choices. The secondary characters weren’t fully fleshed out.

The ending of MISSING PARTS was a real letdown, except for the last sentence. I recommend Berry’s other books, but not this one.