Monday, June 18, 2012

Book Review: Intervention by Terri Blackstock


This book was an eye-opener to me about what life would be like having a child addicted to drugs.  So many families have to deal with this in today's society, and this book gives the reader a glimpse of what those families go through.  Told mainly from the mother's viewpoint, Barbara Covington has to make some hard choices when her eighteen-year old daughter is caught in the strongholds of addiction.  Emily is on her way to rehab with the interventionalist, when she disappears from the airport and the woman with her is found dead.  

We follow Barbara and her son, Lance, through the journey that they take trying to find and save Emily.  The detectives think that Emily is just another addict killing for another hit.  Her family thinks she is innocent.  Who murdered the interventionalist?  Where did Emily go?  Each page pulls you deeper into the mystery!  See the extremes that a mother will go to in order to save her child, all of the time keeping her faith in God.

Once I started reading this book, I didn't want to put it down!  I loved the suspense that Blackstock builds throughout the whole story.  It ends with a twist that I wasn't expecting!  I highly recommend this book and cannot wait to get my hands on the next one in this series!  Keep the wonderful, Christian fiction coming, Blackstock!  :)

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Zondervan to read and review.  All opinions are my own.