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Loved To Death: A Different Kind of Love Story
Adoption brings about a set of issues unknown to any other social group, not only to the adoptee but to the adoptive parents as well. Death shouldn't be one of those issues. Read about Morosa Denise McKinley's life as an adoptee and her adoptive parents; one who loved too much and one who could not love enough.
82 pages, Paperback
First published February 26, 2007
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July 14, 2012
A Love to Die For
Adoption was the answer for Morrow and Rose McKinley. They brought five day old Morosa Denise McKinley home and made her their own. But for the now twenty-three year old Morosa, was adoption the right answer?
"Loved to Death" is an unconventional ghost story with a hint of who-dun-it told from the viewpoint of multiple characters. "Loved to Death" is a very short and quick to read story. In this case, I believe its length worked against the story. There was not enough time for character development or for the plot to build and grow on readers. Before you know it, the story is over. I think this would be better as a full length novel with more exploration of characters and the plot. And my advice for the author with her future releases would be to limit the narratives. Readers bounce from one character's narrative to the next without introduction. You have to read a sentence or two or three to realize which character's viewpoint you are now reading from. Despite a few editing quirks, "Loved to Death" is a decent debut effort.
Reviewed by: Toni
Adoption was the answer for Morrow and Rose McKinley. They brought five day old Morosa Denise McKinley home and made her their own. But for the now twenty-three year old Morosa, was adoption the right answer?
"Loved to Death" is an unconventional ghost story with a hint of who-dun-it told from the viewpoint of multiple characters. "Loved to Death" is a very short and quick to read story. In this case, I believe its length worked against the story. There was not enough time for character development or for the plot to build and grow on readers. Before you know it, the story is over. I think this would be better as a full length novel with more exploration of characters and the plot. And my advice for the author with her future releases would be to limit the narratives. Readers bounce from one character's narrative to the next without introduction. You have to read a sentence or two or three to realize which character's viewpoint you are now reading from. Despite a few editing quirks, "Loved to Death" is a decent debut effort.
Reviewed by: Toni
August 16, 2009
Life lesson on adoption
While I don’t know much about adoption this book was a real eye opener. From the feelings of both the adoptee and the adopting parents, I now have a better sense of the emotions all the parties par take in.
The sub title “a different kind of love story” is the perfect title for this fast pace quick read. We follow along the realms of Morosa Denise McKinley as she is missing for two years. Author Rosa Ferguson takes us along in this diverse short story with us riding shoot gun along with the characters as they tell their side of the story. The characters included Morosa who tells most of the story. We also hear from Morosa’s Parents, Morosa’s strange and Caucasian classmate and also lover Mathew Taylor. Detective Nettles is a rookie assign to Morosa case. Detective Wells a thirty year veteran. I was shocked at the turn of event and I am sure you will be also.
This short story is about love, love lost, not enough love. We follow the emotions of Morosa as she speaks of her adoption. I was surprised at the ending my compliments to Mrs. Ferguson I think she achieved what she set out to do. Open up eyes about adoption, a love story with mix with suspense.
SiStar Tea
ARC Book Club Inc.
4.5 star rating
While I don’t know much about adoption this book was a real eye opener. From the feelings of both the adoptee and the adopting parents, I now have a better sense of the emotions all the parties par take in.
The sub title “a different kind of love story” is the perfect title for this fast pace quick read. We follow along the realms of Morosa Denise McKinley as she is missing for two years. Author Rosa Ferguson takes us along in this diverse short story with us riding shoot gun along with the characters as they tell their side of the story. The characters included Morosa who tells most of the story. We also hear from Morosa’s Parents, Morosa’s strange and Caucasian classmate and also lover Mathew Taylor. Detective Nettles is a rookie assign to Morosa case. Detective Wells a thirty year veteran. I was shocked at the turn of event and I am sure you will be also.
This short story is about love, love lost, not enough love. We follow the emotions of Morosa as she speaks of her adoption. I was surprised at the ending my compliments to Mrs. Ferguson I think she achieved what she set out to do. Open up eyes about adoption, a love story with mix with suspense.
SiStar Tea
ARC Book Club Inc.
4.5 star rating
November 22, 2010
APOOO Rating: 2.5
Amazon Rating: 2.5
Loved To Death, A Different Kind of Love Story is the debut novel by Rosa Elmore Ferguson. It is the story of Morosa Denise McKinley – a 23 year-old corpse. Morosa is trying to find out what happened to her and why her parents loved so differently. Detectives Nettles and Wells have been assigned to investigate what has become the worst crime in the history of Gaston City, Indiana.
Ferguson tackles a lot in this story which was only 72 pages long. The story is about adoption, abuse, love, abandonment, and hopelessness rolled into a murder mystery. As each character is introduced, they added pieces to the confusing puzzle. A few times, I had to read a passage twice in order to figure out who was speaking. Just as I began to get settled into the story, the mystery had been solved and the story was over. All in all, I think this was a good debut novella but it needs more plot and character development as well as more pages to be a full novel.
Priscilla C. Johnson
APOOO BookClub
October 27, 2010
A somewhat INTRIGUING story about adoption, identity, acceptance, love, and death...it's quite DISTURBING and VERY sad...the story had potential...but it's just too short in details and character development...it's still an interesting enough PEEK into the life of an adopted child and what could POSSIBLY happen.
April 18, 2016
Loved to death is a very fast read but very interesting story. Mrs. Ferguson is a very good writer. This is a summer read!!!
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