The Adoption Conspiracy by J.E. Sayles

The Adoption Conspiracy by J.E. Sayles
Publisher: Mundania Press
Genre: Suspense/Mystery, Historical
Length: Full Length (180 pages)
Heat Level: Spicy
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

You are invited into a world of madness, inside the gates of a home known as Brookledge Manor. Within its locked doors lies the world of a high-society family with many secrets.

Father is the all-powerful godhead; Mother the society matron, ever-concerned about protecting the family’s image, which young Raven Brookledge senses has already been tarnished–and that she is somehow to blame. Why else would she be kept much like a prisoner, hidden from the world beyond?

Lorna is the ever-present voice whispering in Raven’s ear, telling her that being the lone colored adopted person in their family makes Raven a misfit; that she was never loved or wanted. Raven struggles to understand why the family adopted her, leading her on a search for her biological family. Her father provides the answers she is looking for…or does he?

As Raven’s search for answers progresses, she finds that she is in a battle against time, for all who live at Brookledge Manor seem destined to perish before their time. The house itself holds the secrets, but will it manage to claim all of its inhabitants as penalty for her quest?

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The secondary characters dragged me through a wide range of emotions. Raven’s adoptive family is as secretive as they are dysfunctional. The unhealthy relationships among them were sometimes expressed in incredibly subtle ways that made the plot feel even more realistic as it unfolded.

It would have been helpful to have more information about who Raven is as an individual. Her curiosity about and raw grief over not having any information about her origins adds some depth to her character, but I had trouble figuring out what kind of person she was outside of these burning questions. The brief glimpses of her growing identity as a person of color were fascinating and could have easily been expanded to illuminate more of her personality.

Some of the most absorbing sections of this book chronicle how the upper middle class white families in Raven’s town thought of other races during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The seemingly slow progression of the types of words they used to discuss black people as well as how much social contact was considered acceptable made me marvel at how much can change in a generation. From one year to the next very little seems to change, yet when viewed with a wider lens everything shifts much more quickly than I ever would have guessed had my knowledge of this era ended in 1950.

The romantic elements never quite seemed to fit in with the rest of the plot. I had trouble understanding why the characters involved in it were attracted to one another and would have liked to have more information about what they saw in one another before they fell in love. Both characters were intriguing as individuals, I was just never able to see the spark between them.

There were a few things that didn’t make any sense to me in the beginning of this story. At first I wondered if I’d misread the possible interpretations of these scenes. Once Ms. Sayles began pulling everything together, though, I was impressed by how many clues she’d tucked into small snippets of conversation among other places.

The Adoption Conspiracy is a good choice for anyone in the mood for something dramatic and historical. The mystery is nearly as compelling as everything else that is going on in the mid 20th century for these characters!