It's pretty awful, really, but good for young teens. Takes a long time to get where it's going and had a pretty unsatisfactory ending, but kind of fun to read like a bad movie - you can't stop watching it because it's so bad. ( )

{my thoughts} - This book summed up the entire series in a sense. I wasn’t pleased with the different point of views in which it had been written. It had switched from Janie, Reeve and Brian throughout the book which was more then annoying in my honest opinion. I was actually rather surprised at what she had found but even more surprised that she and Reeve had gotten back together after the last book. I also couldn’t believe how well both families were getting along that they allowed their non-kidnapped children the right to spend as much time as they wanted at the Johnson’s house. If I were the Springs I would never be able to allow the kidnappers by proxy anywhere’s near the children I had been able to raise. It just seems wrong to me and there Brian was spending the whole summer at the Johnson’s I don’t get how the Spring’s went from overprotective to just about not caring at all. But it is a book and it looks like it was meant to end happily ever after and sometimes happily ever afters are far to forced for them to make any real sense.

{reason for reading} - I wanted to complete the series. It wasn’t as good as the other books but was worth getting to know the conclusion of the storyline. ( )

I can't believe I actually spent the time to read the entire Janie Johnson series. I read the first book as a child, and thought I would see what had happened. The writing quality decreases as the series goes on. ( )

This is the fourth and last in Cooney's Janie series. Janie discovers that her father had been sending money to the woman who kidnapped her. She has to deal with her anger at his deception while at the same time cope with her grief and fear because he has suffered a heart attack and stroke and may not survive. She decides to set out to meet the woman who kidnapped her and find out the answers to her many questions about her kidnapping.

Cooney has a gift for capturing adolescence: the conflicting (and conflicted) emotions, the silliness with friends, the realization that even with the best intention one's actions can seriously impact other people. Unfortunately, this fourth novel is probably the weakest of the three I've read. At the best of times Cooney jumps from situation to flashback to an entirely different situation with little exposition. The first half of this novel seemed very disjointed. Fortunately, the second half comes together as Janie decides whether to meet her kidnapper. ( )

Continues the story of Janie, and she finds a folder that her adopted father had been keeping. Inside the folder was info on Hannah. ( )