Words Unsaid
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
As parents, Anna and Lily’s guiding principle is to help their children reach their potential and capture their dreams. Ten-year-old Eleanor is a STEM whiz already building apps for her mobile phone, while her twin brother Georgie is climbing the youth tennis rankings in Southern California. Andy continues his love affair with cars, but his dream is threatened when Anna decides to sell her empire of dealerships and move on to her next career challenge.
At her wits’ end with sixteen-year-old Andy, Anna can’t fathom how he got to be so strong-willed and stubborn. Lily has a pretty good idea, but she’s mostly keeping those thoughts to herself. Now a family court judge, her experience playing peacemaker is coming in handy at home.
What they need is a family vacation, a chance to draw closer and reaffirm their love for one another. Those plans are suddenly upended when Andy goes missing.
Don’t miss Words Unsaid, the fifth installment in KG MacGregor’s ground- breaking, award-winning Shaken series.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After a decade-long hiatus from the Shaken series (following 2010's Mother Load), MacGregor delivers a solid fifth installment that neither takes risks with the characters nor delves into too much recap. Anna and Lily Kaklis, now in their late 40s and parenting a teenager and preteen twins, barely give a thought to their romantic pre-kids days. Anna is in the throes of selling her car dealership empire; Lily's occupied by her work as a superior court judge; son Andy is underperforming at school; and the twins, Eleanor and Georgie, have myriad activities to be ferried to. Despite the domestic milieu, this is not entirely relatable stuff—Anna's deal is worth nine figures—but the settings are believably drawn and the relationships realistic. It's also a fairly pedestrian slice-of-life narrative—until, at the halfway point, Andy is left home with the housekeeper and they both disappear. Andy, who takes after his Latino birth father rather than his white mothers, has been swept up by ICE, and Lily's L.A. County legal connections are worthless against the Feds. As a plot twist, it's a bit out of the blue, but sadly plausible and played with more emotional realism than cheap suspense. Series fans will be glad to return to the lives of the Kaklis family.
