Losing Chloe

by Debra Flores

When Chloe loses her first baby tooth she knows she won’t be visited by the tooth fairy. Her mother has explained it all to her: there is no such thing.

Or is there?

When, on the night her daughter loses her first tooth, Mia wakes to an unusual occurrence, she can’t help but think that maybe she’s wrong. But she couldn’t be, could she? The tooth fairy isn’t real.

Mia Graham is a woman of science. A no-nonsense single mother who only believes in what she can see. In a world governed by facts. But her world is starting to seem shaky. Could things such as the tooth fairy actually exist? Has she been wrong all these years? Has science failed her somehow? Or is what she’s actually experiencing a slow descent into madness?
And if so, whose madness?

Hers?

Her daughter’s?

And where will it end?

211 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 7, 2018

About the author

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Debra Flores lives in Texas with a big beast of a cat - but she has no delusions about him. She knows full well if her life were in danger he would not be coming to her rescue like that fabulous cat on that viral video. But she loves him anyway, especially when he's nice enough to sleep on something besides her laptop so she can write.

Reviews

[Sev · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book reminds me of the game What Remains of Edith Finch, in the sense that it makes you question if it the “enemy” was maybe a family curse, some paranormal entity, or it may have just been mental illness. What I loved about this book is that it completely stirred me up, I think we all have had inexplicable experiences during childhood that we later (as we got older and more logical) chalked up to maybe being a dream, or having an overactive imagination. This book makes me recall those past experiences and I look at them now with another perspective. Now I am (like Mia) still a very logical person and this book (no matter how well written it is) won’t turn me in to a believer of the tooth fairy and such things but it certainly does make me wonder if maybe just maybe it wasn’t all imaginations and dreams. What did creep me out about this book was the “black-eyed children”, I’ve watched a youtube video about the urban legend of “black-eyed children” and that made this book even creepier for me. I loved it nonetheless and read it in one sitting! Great job Debra :)