Janie Face to Face

Janie Face to Face is the fifth and final book in the Janie Johnson series. Like a lot of book series I read the story just went downhill quickly. The part that intrigued me was Hannah's point of view. I have always wondered what she was thinking when she took tiny Janie from the shopping mall.

Janie finally has her life in order and is attending college. Happy to be away from people who do not know her as the "milk carton" girl she is living life as a normal person until she meets a boy who wants to know her past. Determined now to share anything she shuts him down each and every time he asks questions about her family. The story was repetitive and felt overly done as the book progressed.

Without a doubt the most interesting part was the story from Hannah's point of view. It is clear she has some sort of mental disorder and that part was written splendidly. I found myself skimming the chapters that dealt with Janie to just get to the Hannah part.

The writing sort of went downhill. I was bored with a lot of the story and just wanted it to end. The transitions were not smooth at all between the different characters. One moment it is Janie and the next it is a sibling and I was like whoa what is going on. All in all the series just drug on way too long. A novella would have been a better solution for Hannah's point of view and  a quick epilogue to sum up the part about Janie and Reeve.