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Daddy's Girl Linda Wattley Reality Press, LLC 229 Pages - $14.95 US ISBN: 0-9765619-2-1 Reviewed by Tori Pearson Literary Wonders! www.literarywonders.com 11/05/2005 Rating: 4 Stars
As you read,"Daddy's Girl", you can only hope that this story of a little girl lost yet found is a complete figment of author Linda Wattley's imagination: it's too harrowing to be true. The story begins even before the birth of its young storyteller, Leona Marie Tillard, daughter of Brenda and Bruce Tillard, and surprises and disturbs us through Leona's teenage years.
Brenda Wilson and Bruce were attracted to each other instantly: Bruce loved Brenda and accepted her son, Mark, and Brenda loved Bruce and his charming personality and good looks. Wedded life was blissful for a time until Bruce's true possessive, explosive nature began to show. Bruce is a son of the notorious Tillard family and what the Tillard family wanted they got. Even if that means Mother Tillard wanted to keep Bruce out of jail for abusing his wife so brutally that it induced Leona's premature birth and left Brenda in the hospital for the first three months of her daughter's life. Once Brenda came home, family life was wonderful again for a time: Leona and her two brothers, Mark, whom suffers from a heart condition, and Dennis, the youngest child and Bruce's first biological son, did as they were told and life rolled along seamlessly until the day Brenda disappeared.
Soon after that her brother, Mark, went into the hospital, and Leona never saw him again.
As Leona slowly put her mother and her brother in the back of her mind, she began to have experiences that Leona, in her naivete, did not realize were inappropriate and reprehensible; she believes they are games of love. Somehow Leona is able to disconnect from the evil that harms her and proceed with her life outside her home with openness, wisdom, and wonder. Leona shares a special friendship with her longtime secret crush and she develops a sisterly relationship with Sarah, one of the daughters of her father's girlfriend and eventual wife, Priscilla.
Once the blended family begins to crumble, the "love games" resume and soon Leona finds out that Sarah plays the "game” as well albeit a little differently than she does. Sarah eventually enlightens Leona with the reality of the "game" they have been playing and Leona's world crashes down at her feet. Fortunately, during this time, Leona develops a relationship with a young man who may be able to help her to find answers to questions of Leona's past and those answers put Leona on the path to healing.
In "Daddy's Girl", Leona suffers through abandonment and abuse, disappointment and despair, yet she is able to live her life with a keen knowledge of what she wants for herself and what she wants from others. Will the realization of the detrimental twists and turns of her life destroy Leona? Will she be able to break free from the ties that bind her? Will Leona lose herself and everything in which she has believed?
"Daddy's Girl" is a gripping, amazing, unpredictable novel that invites you to feel for this little girl, Leona Marie Tillard; making you want to protect her. Linda Wattley tells a masterful story that compels you to turn each and every page.
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