Thursday, May 6, 2010

What About the Children? What’s the Strategy to Prevent These Tragedies?



Dianne Nelson
Outskirts Press Inc
$12.95

Child abuse is a hot topic these days and this book deals with a different perspective of the issue. The author delves into the realm of foster parents and how they abuse children. This should have been a first class expose. Instead it is a very poorly written account of the situations the author was in. Breonna is the girl the author tells about. The author, for some reason, never gives her sister a name; she is just Breonna’s sister. The writing is sluggish and the author tells a series of events with nothing that leads into them. We also know nothing about Dianne Nelson other than she lives and works in Maryland. The reader never really knows the age of Breonna throughout the work. It reads like a series of thoughts on the part of the author. Another thing is that the title has very little to do with anything depicted in the book. She also shows no strategy to avoid this situation. I have been a defender of self publish and POD books for a long time. This is a shining example of why they get the negative attention they receive.

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Review by Gary Roen

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