The Perfect Solution

by Ey Wade

Everyone loves three year old Brhin Teddi. 
His single mother, Catrine, loves him. 
His aunt and uncle and cousins love him. 
The teachers at his daycare center, the Perfect Solution, love him. 
And someone in the shadows, watching, following and planning, 
loves him so much she’s ready to destroy countless lives to have him 
and call him her son. 

A terrifying look into the world of childcare, its weaknesses 
and the terrible cost of those weaknesses. 

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 24, 2010

About the author

Knowing Ey as a writer and author is like cracking an egg’s shell in the air and wondering how far the splatter will spread. Wait, that’s kind of like knowing her as a person. She's like all over the board and always working on three to five projects at a time. Ey doesn't favorite spot in which to write and claims...

"My most exciting view is pointed at the keyboard. When an idea enters my head, I just flow with it. I haven’t been able to conform my writing to any specific pattern. I am more than often working on one story and the characters from another will just be dying to get my attention and I have to go into their world."
And I have a fan group, where people have joined!!! I'm honored and truly appreciative. https://www.facebook.com/groups/14240...

Reviews

[Ed Drury · Rating 5 out of 5]

Being not an ordinary story in any way, I found it quite rewarding to just go with this highly unique style. The final chapters are gripping and I found it impossible to put it down. I am not sure I would have been that invested in the outcome if I had not come to know all the characters, their way of thinking, and something about their history. Being such an unusual book, I scanned every review of it after finishing it. I did see and appreciate many of the more critical comments, but nothing I read detracted from my first instinct about the book which was I was reading something very unusual and important. The book could use a little more polish in a few places and yes the momentum does slow in places due to extensive dialog. But I think it is a unique and rare thing to find such an original style that it really didn't detract from my enjoyment of this thought provoking book. Recently, there was a case very much like this in not one of our daycare centers, but a private charter elementary school. Perhaps that makes me somewhat bias toward this fiction work, I know that real life is often stranger than fiction.

The Perfect Solution is a childcare center which, as the name might suggest, seems too good to be true on the surface and it is. There are flaws in what seems like a perfect daycare setting for preschool kids. The book has a terrifying premise and hopefully will cause concerned parents to ask a lot of questions about the daycare service providers who they place so much trust in.

This book is also about deeply flawed, but basically good people put in awful situations, in many cases because of choices that they have made. The story uses a lot of nonlinear time lines to give the back stories of the characters a closer examination. This is a careful balance to attempt in a suspense novel where we want to keep up with the action as it happens. On the other hand, we need to know these characters to be really invested in the story.

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this story to be very interesting as I was a daycare teacher for a few years myself for 2-3 year olds! Three and a half year old Brhin gets stolen from a daycare that seemed to be a fantastic place to be at on its looks but it really depends on the staffing if a daycare is any good. A lady who was abused as a child steals him away from the new substitute teacher and the police call in his father as a possible suspect who never even knew he had a son! The story goes from there with dealing with the complications this all creates! I enjoyed reading this story even though there were just a few misspellings that might have been done by the formatting. Looking forward to reading more of Ey Wade's books!

[Amy Deason · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book in exchange for a honest review. This is the first book I've read from Ey Wade and it was amazing. The story of a child mistakenly given to a stranger, it filled me with a variety of emotions. Fear, dread, anger. I can't even begin to imagine what a mother would go through if their child was stolen from them especially while under the care of people trusted to take care of them. This was a moving read that kept me praying that the child would be found and returned. I won't give away the ending but I will say that this is a must read for any parent or anyone responsible for someone else's child.

[Keke Chanel · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a mother, I was emotional throughout this book. You never know when something like this can happen, but we pray it doesn't. Awareness is key to prevention! This story brings awareness to parents, childcare workers, police, as well as other family members who may be affected if something like what happened with To their loved one. Paying attention to children is another form of awareness this book touched on. It doesn't matter how hectic life gets, because it will, we still have to pay attention to our children, our surroundings, and our intuition. Ey Wade did a phenomenal job in displaying her message loud and clear in this book. Don't become a victim! Pay attention! Speak up! This can save the lives of so many children affected by kidnapping each day. Some don't make it back the same or even alive. I will recommend this book to my family, friends, associates, and anyone else who care about children. The message is this book is powerful! It should be heard and taken get value.

[Nicole Storey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of those stories where, while you're reading it, you keep saying to yourself, "Please, don't ever let this happened to my child." Ey Wade takes words and paints the picture of every parents' nightmare - their child abducted. I did enjoy the book very much. I think the back story of Austin and Catrine did drag a bit at times, but I did see the necessity of telling the readers what happened and why he was not in their lives.
The most horrifying part of this tale is that it could happen to anyone. We send our children to school or daycare with the expectations that they will be taken care of. The truth is that most of the time, daycare centers are not as as wonderful as they may seem from appearances. I learned a lot from the book and I know many other readers will, also.