Review: Kidnapping My Daughter

Kidnapping My Daughter by Rachel Jensby
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 Stars ★★★★

We knew our hours together were dwindling away and we had no way of knowing how long it would be before any of us would see each other again. Who would Cheyenne go to? What would become of all of us?

This was a truly heartbreaking story about a young child who was abused by her own father and was ultimately failed by the system who was meant to protect her. The only way Rachel could protect her daughter was to go on the run, if she was to stay then she would be ordered to put Cheyenne into the open arms of her abuser as part of joint custody. Rachel is extremely brave for writing this book and she really did an amazing job. In my opinion it's very important that the failures of the system are made public to show that many children are still not safe even after asking for help.

Parts of this book did leave me very frustrated, however. Rachel blamed her youth for her brushing off of the evidence that her daughter was being abused. Many times I just wanted to yell at her for being so incredibly naive, i wanted to step in and shake her whilst explaining that this shit is not ok! She also leaves the reader hanging numerous times. She will start to explain things that have happened but then stop part way through saying actually that's personal, I'm not going to continue. Yeah...that's frustrating to a reader.

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