| Intervention (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction) | Hardcoverby Terri Blackstock (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Thorndike Press | | Edition: | Lrgth Edition | | Page Count: | 471 Pages | | Publication Date: | November 18, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 732,476nd |
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Product Description
Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment—and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen—Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 31 reviews)
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...a riveting novel... by C.J. Darlington  4 Stars
November 16, 2009
An intervention is eighteen-year-old Emily Covington's last chance. It's also her mother Barbara's last hope. But what starts out as a rescue plan for the teen quickly evolves into a nightmare. Within hours Emily's interventionist is found dead at the airport, and Emily herself has disappeared. All fingers point to the girl as the prime suspect. Barbara can't believe her daughter would do such a thing, but does she really know her anymore? What if in a desperate attempt to escape treatment she did the unthinkable and took a human life? This question keeps the suspense flowing through each chapter. We discover along with Barbara her daughter's hidden life and what really caused Emily's downward spiral.
No one wakes up one day and decides to become an addict. In most cases there's a defining event, usually tragic, that left unresolved can create all the negative emotions an addict is looking to numb. In Emily's case, it's the death of her father.
How can a girl from a good family with no history of violence or addiction fall so far? Emily talks about it in her journals, which her mother reads throughout the story. The words are startling and painful. Barbara has tried so hard to keep her family together and to be the strong one, but could what she thought was strength have been coldness to her children?
With the help of her tech savvy younger son Lance, Barbara throws herself into bringing her daughter home alive. She will find her. But Detective Kent Harlan isn't so sure. He's trying to do his job, and he doesn't need a meddling mother interfering with his case. Yet he can't deny his admiration for Barbara's determination and dogged belief in Emily's innocence.
Like its TV counterpart, Intervention shows us the devastating affects of addiction, especially to the addict's family. But perhaps the title is a bit misleading. The actual intervention is only the springboard for this suspense novel, concluded by chapter four. More focus is given to Barbara coming to grips with the root of Emily's issues and her own blindness to her daughter's pain. It's not that she's been a bad mother. She's tried in every way she knows how to provide for her children. But sometimes healing can't be brought through our own strength. Barbara has to learn how to lean on the Lord not only for Emily's safety, but soon also for her own.
Intervention is a riveting novel that shines the spotlight on the drug epidemic among our nation's youth. Will we, like Barbara, unwittingly turn a blind eye to those hurting and abused among us, or will we reach out and offer hope before they end up in Emily's shoes? May Intervention be our call to action. We'll be served some terrific, page-turning suspense as only Terri Blackstock can deliver along the way.
--Reviewed by C.J. Darlington for TitleTrakk
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Blackstock's best yet by C. Hodde  5 Stars
November 14, 2009
I was in a hurry to purchase Intervention when I read that this book had hit the NYT Bestseller status. I saw why as soon as I started reading. The grasp of characters, the inside knowledge of a family in peril, and the strong main characters make the read realistic. The depth of emotion and the surprises on every page would not let me put the book down--I might miss something! Well worth the read.
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The Damage is Real by creative quilter (Oceanside, CA USA)  3 Stars
November 14, 2009
This is a story of the damage that addiction to drugs and alcohol can do to a family...the user and those who watch them self destruct. The writing reflects the author's understanding of these horrors.
Regretfully, her awareness is often overtaken by an unexpected religious zeal. The religious references are excessive and add nothing to the story. further, the Mother in the story is, on one side, well depicted in her frenzy to help her daughter, and on the other totally unbelievable. One moment we are heraing about her financial diffiulcties and in the next she somehow finds the resources to buy new phones, computers, clothers, etc. The depiction of her as a total person is just not believable.
While the story is convincing on one level...how an additicion grows and the damage it causes....on another level it is highly unbelievable.
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An honest approach by Bethany K. Scanlon (Houston, Texas) 5 Stars
November 13, 2009
Last night I finished Terri Blackstock's novel, Intervention. Not only is it very well written, paced correctly and hard to put down, but Terri is able to pull from personal experience. This novel is about a widowed woman who has to intervene concerning her teenage daughter's drug use. Since Terri had to personally go through an intervention with her own daughter, she pushed the emotional side on what a family member has to go through when a loved one has an addiction.
Bethany K. Scanlon
Author of Where's my mate?
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Starts Strong, Let Down by the Ending by Michael Hickerson (Smyrna, TN) 3 Stars
November 04, 2009
One of my biggest criticisms of contemporary Christian fiction is that while the stories and situations may be compelling and interesting, the characters and their reactions to the situations or chain of events often are not. Too often, you can predict the story arc for each character based on his or her introduction in the novel. You can guess who will be "saved" and who won't be early in the story, thus ruining some of the enjoyment of the story and diminishing the authenticity of the novel. (I'm looking at you "Left Behind.")
So, when a book comes along from the contemporary Christian genre that has not only well drawn, realistic characters but also ones who react in authentic manners, it always draws my attention a bit. That's the case with Terri Blackstock's "Intervention"
"Invention" is the story of widowed mother Barbara and her two children. Her oldest, daughter Emily has embraced the world of drugs and addiction in the wake of her father's death while her younger son, Logan has his own struggles but hasn't quite gone down the same path. In desperation to save her daughter, Barbara enrolls her in a rehab program, complete with an intervention agent who will come and take Emily to the facility so Emily can't talk her mother out of this course of action. The two set off for Georgia but the interventionist is murdered in the parking garage of the Atlanta airport and Emily becomes the prime suspect. Barbara races to Atlanta with her son in tow to try and find Emily, convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt of her daughter's innocence.
Blackstock does a nice job of making Barbara feel like a real character over the course of the story. Her faith and prayers are authentic as as her doubts as the evidence begins to pile up. Barbara is not a perfect person or mother and Blackstock allows her to be portrayed as such at several points in the early stages of the novel.
However, once the novel hits a certain point and some aspects of what is really going on are revealed that things being to slowly unravel. The last third of the novel depends a lot on Barbara becoming McGyver-like in her ability to get information and do certain things to help track down Emily. Yes, Google is a powerful tool but it certainly shouldn't allow Barbara to get one step ahead of the police in her investigation as is portrayed here. And the revelation of what exactly is going here and why is a bit of a disappointment.
It's a shame really because for the first 200 pages, "Intervention" is a well crafted, suspense thriller with realistic characters and a horrifying situation.
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