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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Turns out identity crises in Canadian teens who get messed up in drugs rly isn't my scene. The end was somewhat satisfying though.
I love a book that is so well written that it can be read in an afternoon. This was a wonderful story about Shannon and her experience as an abandoned child. Sad story but great story.
Reminds me of The Language of Flowers, but with a PNW setting.
Won this book on a goodreads giveaway. The story of an abandoned baby girl, Shannon. Through the book, we learn the story of her mother and the events that lead her to leave her baby at the YMCA. At first, I wasn't too interested, but after a while, I don't know why, I got very fond of the main character. I'm glad at the end she found her identity and some peace. oh and I loved the description of Vancouver.
This is a well written book telling the story of Shannon who as a baby is left outside the YMCA. Not long after she’s abandoned she is found by a man who fleetingly sees her mother. Theses actions change the lives of all three by this one decision.
Initially Shannon is moved from foster to foster home but eventually she is taken in by Miranda who is single mother who is the first to show Shannon love and a stable home with her daughter Lydia Rose. Even though it’s a better life than she’s had up until then as she gets older she feels disjointed and home doesn’t feel like her home. The longing to find her parents is a constant pull. This is written from Shannon’s perspective and also we get Yulas Shannon’s mothers story of what lead to that day and the decisions she made. Although at times this book is sad and harrowing it is also uplifting and the message is sometimes what we think we want isn’t what we need and what we have is ok but ultimately belonging somewhere is the key to being yourself. I would read another by this author as the writing full of emotion and empathy for her characters.
Initially Shannon is moved from foster to foster home but eventually she is taken in by Miranda who is single mother who is the first to show Shannon love and a stable home with her daughter Lydia Rose. Even though it’s a better life than she’s had up until then as she gets older she feels disjointed and home doesn’t feel like her home. The longing to find her parents is a constant pull. This is written from Shannon’s perspective and also we get Yulas Shannon’s mothers story of what lead to that day and the decisions she made. Although at times this book is sad and harrowing it is also uplifting and the message is sometimes what we think we want isn’t what we need and what we have is ok but ultimately belonging somewhere is the key to being yourself. I would read another by this author as the writing full of emotion and empathy for her characters.
I really wanted to like this book. The synopsis made it sound a lot better than it actually was. It wasn't a bad story, just mediocre. It started out pretty good and somewhere in the middle, I thought it just fell away.
A beautiful, heartbreaking story told with am impeccable narrative voice.
I don't read as much realistic fiction, which is funny because I'm usually glad when I do. So I think that accounts for why it took me so long to get into this book - I was still wondering why the heck I was continuing to read it at the half-way point. But I'm glad I finished it out.
The character's life is hard. Hard to read, it's so full of sorrow. Not in an over-the-top way, but a very real and devastating way. Even after half-way I wasn't getting much in terms of growth/analysis/resolution. But I'm glad I stuck it out because it's there, just late.
"I'm not sure that I am a bad person at my core. But I have done such bad things. I don't know where one starts and the other stops."
"'What if she's not there? I say to him.
'Then she's not there.'
'What if I never find her?'
'Then you never will.'
'What if she isn't happy to see me?'
'Then we'll leave right away.'
'What if she doesn't like me?'
'Not possible.'
'When's the soonest we can go?'
'We'll go this weekend,' he says."
"It's so much colder, damper, in the shade of the forest. Something I managed to pick up in school: the human eye is more sensitive to green than to any other color. We see almost every shade of it."
The character's life is hard. Hard to read, it's so full of sorrow. Not in an over-the-top way, but a very real and devastating way. Even after half-way I wasn't getting much in terms of growth/analysis/resolution. But I'm glad I stuck it out because it's there, just late.
"I'm not sure that I am a bad person at my core. But I have done such bad things. I don't know where one starts and the other stops."
"'What if she's not there? I say to him.
'Then she's not there.'
'What if I never find her?'
'Then you never will.'
'What if she isn't happy to see me?'
'Then we'll leave right away.'
'What if she doesn't like me?'
'Not possible.'
'When's the soonest we can go?'
'We'll go this weekend,' he says."
"It's so much colder, damper, in the shade of the forest. Something I managed to pick up in school: the human eye is more sensitive to green than to any other color. We see almost every shade of it."