Little Pieces of Me by Alison HammerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
How would you react if you found out your dad who raised you turns out to not be your DNA dad? Two years after her father’s death Paige gets an email alert from a DNA test taken a while back that she has a new connection, a parent-child relationship. The shock of this information would be significant. Paige feels like she doesn’t know who she is anymore.
The novel also shows us what happened back when Paige was conceived, with her mother Betsy and her relationship with both men. We get to know the mother in ways that Paige never did while growing up. This dual timeline works well.
Combined in the mix is Paige’s upcoming wedding, although it seems to take a back seat to the paternity issue and trying to find out what happened and who knew what. We also have Paige’s younger twin sisters, who seem to be turning 20 instead of 30.
Parts of the novel seemed to drag somewhat as there is a lot of Paige running away, or at least leaving the immediate area, when confronted with her Mom or her biological dad. There were times of frustration when reading as this just seemed to extend out the book in a way that didn’t seem realistic for the character. It made me want to know more about her life leading up being 40 and soon to be married, what happened in the past twenty years? Why is her relationship so broken with her mother they never did try to repair it?
What brought this book down was the last chapter of the book. It ruined part of the story line and would’ve be a stronger book with that left out.
Thanks to William Morrow and Custom House and NetGalley for an uncorrected electronic advance review copy of this book.
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