Would you sacrifice your son to save your daughter?There’s something different about Kate’s four-year-old son. He wasn’t created the old fashioned way. Now a violent cult wants him dead and Kate will do anything to protect him – until they take her daughter.Glimpse JT Lawrence’s chilling vision of the all-too-near future in this dark kidnapping thriller with a twist that will send you reeling. … kidnapping thriller with a twist that will send you reeling. How We Found You is the second book in the futuristic dystopian series When Tomorrow Calls.
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Exciting Story! Lots of action and twists that keep surprising you all the way to the end! I liked this one even more than the first one.
This was a pretty good sequel though if you picked it up without Book 1, you could read it as a standalone.
Kate (aka Kirsten) is raising her two kids (Silver & Mally) with her brother Seth and their very good friend Keke. She knows that Mally is special and she has her guesses as to why but she’s not sure what to do with it. Pretty soon, it becomes apparent that someone is after one or both of her kids and she has to unravel the mystery she walked away from 4 years ago in order to save them.
Sometimes I loved Kate and sometimes she was tedious. Even though I understand why she’s stressed out and sometimes loses her temper and wits, I still wanted to give her a small slap to bring her back to reality. Freaking out isn’t going to keep anyone safe and it did create a few lags in the story. I still find Kate’s synethesia fascinating and so many of the side characters are great, including the new guy Zach.
Keke is my true fascination. I want to be her side kick! So I was a little sad to see how limited her role was in this book. I think this is partly because I started this series with the prequel, which is told from Keke’s point of view and where Kate/Kirsten is just a side character. I want more Keke please. Kate needs a vacation and Keke obviously has adventure and intrigue to spare.
It was great to see Marko too (Keke’s significant friend with benefits) but he also had a limited role in this story. Seth is another fascinating character because he’s something of a mercenary, but one with a code and a heart. He played such a big role last book that I missed his presence in this tale (again, he has a limited role). At this point it’s probably clear that Kate had too much page time and all these great characters didn’t get enough time.
Silver and Mally were realistically done, which I appreciated. Sometimes they were perfect little sweet angels and sometimes they were mischievous little devils trying Kate’s patience. This made it so much easier to connect with the kids.
The plot is wrapped around a prophecy that has the kids caught up in it. I really enjoyed how this unfolded. There’s brief moments where Kate thinks the kids are safe, that she knows who to trust…. and then, boom! Everything changes with one action or one reveal. Great use of suspense. The story wraps up answering the mystery for this book. I look forward to Book 3! 4.5/5 stars.
The Narration: Roshina Ratnam is phenomenal with this series. I’m loving her narration and really appreciate the skill she brings to the table. This tale is set in a near future South Africa and there’s several African accents. I’m completely untutored in African languages but Ratnam was made it possible for me to hear the differences in the various accents (for example, Zulu and Nigerian). She also did a great job with Kate’s wildly swinging emotions (as needed), Seth’s fear & determination, Keke’s deep concern, and Marko’s intense fear. She had perfect little kid voices for Mally and Silver. 5/5 stars.
I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by JT Lawrence. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
FROZEN IN TERROR!!!
Oh man. Wow! If you want a fast paced, gripping terror, action packed, hard hitting read that grabs you from the start. Congratulations my friends you’ve found it. Yep! You got it. This bad boy right here will set you back upon your heels. Man, I’m still reeling. The characters are so realistic and believable that your sucked right in. No kidding. If you want to lose some stubborn belly fat, this read right here will work for you. No lie, I think I lost a couple of inches. Its definitely a work out. Keeping those stomach muscles tight isn’t the only thing either. Talk about nailbiting, hair pulling, seated on a razor’s edge, yeah that happens. J doesn’t mess around or pull punches. This is one kickass read that captures your attention and holds it till the last word. I can’t wait to read the next installment. Phenomenal job J. Thanks for sharing.
This is the sequel to Why You were taken and book 2 of the When Tomorrow Calls series. Four years after the events in Why You Were Taken and Kate (formally known as Kirsten) and her (sort of) twins — daughter Silver and son Mally — are living with her brother Seth. Kate can’t shake a persistent fear that her family is still threatened. And she is right. The Resurrectors, a violent cult, fueled by an apocalyptic prophecy, are after Mally and will do anything to get him. Making the threat a cult appeals to me. The radical fundamentalist religious figures making the news promoting the idea of the apocalypse and calling for the destruction of non-believers is genuinely scary. Sadly, a cult picking a target for their prophecy seems all too plausible.
This is a sequel I really wanted to see written. The characters and setting are so well drawn and interesting that I wanted to know what happened to everyone. Fortunately, enough readers had the same feeling that Lawrence delivered.
How We Found You is a tense psychological action thriller that had me reading compulsively. the author writes very convincingly about the near future and populates it with characters you care about. Kate is compelling. Lawrence draws her as a woman suffering from PTSD with a smothering anxiety about her children. She is such a fiercely loving and devoted mother that when the threat actually materializes she has the inner strength and ability to meet force with force. She is a badass willing to kickass to protect her own. Seth is no slouch is this area either. There are excellent action scenes, particularly toward the climax, that I think would be amazing on screen.
How We Found You is set in the near future and you would expect advances in technology. I appreciate how the author shows technological advances as extensions of what we already have. The reader isn’t bombarded with gee whiz stuff that are dramatically science fiction. Look at the development of self-driving cars and 3-D printed and functioning mouse ovaries and consider what is the natural extension of that.
Characters we met in Why You Were Taken return in larger and significant rolls: the freelance journalist, Kekeletso (Keke) and her significant other, Marko the uper geek.
There is a trigger warning for this book. How We Found You does have scenes of children in extreme peril. These scenes are well executed and integral to the story but pulled an OMG reaction from me, a pretty hardened reader.