This was a really good read. I thought it was well written and regularly pulled at my heart strings. It showed the love a mother has for their child and how so much can change in such a short time. It was frightening and heartbreaking in equal measure. It enlightened me a lot in relation to the recruitment of young men and women into the Islamic State and how it can so easily happen. My heart really went out to Kendra though because of the hardships she suffered because of her family, who were not always nice or kind to their mother and certainly did not treat her with the respect that she deserved. Love for your family is an incredibly strong bond but there are also limits to what a human being can endure. Kendra here, who loved her children dearly really struggled to come to terms with the realisation that her daughter, Ariana, with whom she always had a close and loving relationship, could just abandon her. She first hopes it's just to visit her estranged husband, Ariana's father, in Iran, but gradually the realisation that her disappearance is far more serious than she initially feared dawns on her. We see here the lengths a mother will go to to try get her daughter back. This was a good read, a tough one, covering a topic that Angelena Boden dealt with very well despite the difficult subject.