Mother Knows Best-Villains, Book 5: A Tale of the Old Witch

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Let’s talk about our three POVS: Good mother Claire, evil scientist madam Frankenstein Jillian (Don’t forget, this name firstly belonged to the doctor not to the patched man they’ve created) and our miracle child Abby.

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Mother Knows Best” is a cutting-edge story, one that is almost futuristic in its scientific advancements (yet equally plausible) and as a result, terrifying. This is still a very binge worthy and fun read. The concept is quite interesting and medically, I'd be curious to know if this was actually possible and/or what laws, etc would interfere. How far is too far? I'm so intrigued!There's nothing I love more than a good medical drama mixed with a psychological thriller and I enjoyed this one very much! Finally I pinched myself to wake up from my dreamy state. When it didn’t work, I slapped myself. That is a first! I’m the target of my own slaps! But it worked. I got everything right about the final (Did I really? Oh shut up!) This is not a David Lynch movie, of course I understood everything correctly. There are no children… There are no parents. All we’re just dust in the wind. Of course I’m singing my favorite Kansas song lyrics not to give you spoilers. You should buy this book and test your own capacity and survival skills after finishing a real mind-bending, WTH I just read kind of book!

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Overall this was an okay read that in my opinion started off strong but started to go downhill after awhile. Mother Knows Best is a psychological thriller about a controversial scientific experiment that involves genetically modifying an embryo to eliminate genetic mutations by creating a three-parent baby.For starters, Gothel’s storyline is pretty dark. There are tons of references to blood, skeletons and deathwith detailed descriptions of each. It’s not as bad as a horror film or anything, butit’s definitely darker (killing children, drinking blood, references to decapitated heads in jars…) than I was expecting for a book published by Disney for younger readers. The suspense of Claire and her new husband’s life is good. Claire essentially lives in hiding because her face was plastered everywhere when the story came out. When Abby turns 11, she starts to get curious about her ancestry, and, as part of a class project, she and Claire agree to test their DNA. What Claire has been keeping secret leaks out to the very worst person possible. As I read this book, I could easily see it as a TV Show, a dramedy like The Mysteries of Laura or Monk. It has the kind of action and insanity that would work perfectly on TV. There was historical moment where few scientists created baby in a petri dish and even though at the time, it was an immoral experiment, nowadays IVF is one of the preferable methods for people who failed to conceive naturally. One might think this experiment and success of IVF should be expanded and we choose all favorable genes for future generation creating perfect children for tomorrow - where does this genetic modification end? Is there any moral compass to measure the happiness a child brings to people who might have lost all the hopes? Jill Murphy is a London-born English children's author, best known for The Worst Witch series and the Large Family picture books. She has been described as "one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land."

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She starts to figure out her parents aren’t telling her the truth and the worst part is somebody breaks into their house and her mother is getting mentally more distracted at each day. Lies, secrets surrounded to the family are about to come out and haunt them forever! This is a complex journey into what could happen in our own future. The question is ... just because we can.. does it mean we should?. For every leap into the unknown, there are consequences ... and Claire, Robert and Jill are going to discover just how dangerous those consequences can be. As soon as she uttered the command, the wand in Stromboli's hand began to glow. The boy laughed and laughed, thinking gold was about to rain from the ceiling and that his wish would soon come true. The younger reader distinction caused me some issues too, although granted I’m a smidge (decades?) past the targeted age range. The writing is over simplified at times and incredibly repetitive at others. (Give younger readers some credit!) I did learnone new vocabulary word though. It’s necromancy, which refers to communing with the dead. Abby is unique child who shares not 2 but 3 parents' DNA. 2 Eggs taken and fused to perfection (from 2 donors - 2 mothers) and 1 sperm (1 father) created perfect embryo, past 8 months that frankenbaby is Abby.

Karen MacInerney writes likable characters. Margie Peterson is not her only series, she also write The Gray Whale Inn Mystery series (also excellent) and recommended (by me). Margie Peterson, our heroine, is overwhelmed. Her marriage is falling to pieces, her oldest child is behaving oddly, her in-laws are rich and meddling, her new age mother is coming to visit and she has a crazy job at a detective agency. She's also a bit of a klutz. Now throw in the murder of the headmaster of the private elementary school and a 'pignapping' (or pig rescue, depending on who you ask) and you have this book in a nutshell (emphasis on nuts). Teaching him something that you would also do well to learn," Chiara replied. Outwardly, she maintained her composure, but her heart raced as she witnessed the wand's power. Let it be temporary, she commended it silently. "You will treat others the way you wish to be treated. And a lie will not get you what you want.” Claire and Ethan Abrams lost their first child Colton at eight years old from a degenerative disease caused by faulty mitochondria, the energy driving components of our cells. They would dearly love to have another child but while Ethan is prepared to take a chance that another child would not be as badly affected, Claire doesn't think she could go through watching another child suffer and die. As the genetic material in mitochondria is only passed on from the mother, she also knows she is responsible for passing on this disease. When she hears of a team of IVF specialists working on an experimental new technique that involves transferring combining mitochondria from a healthy donor into an embryo (known as three parent IVF) she thinks that might be the answer to their prayers. Although the technique is illegal and she knows her husband, a professor of bioethics, would never approve of it, she offers herself as a guinea pig to the IVF team. However, just before her baby is due, news of what they have done is reported to the FDA, leading to the IVF team being charged and Claire fleeing into hiding. Private Investigator Margie is dealing with a lot in her life. Her husband is having an identity crisis, her daughter is acting like a dog and her free spirit of a mother is visiting and throwing out all of her not so nutritious food.