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aud1's review
3.0
I found this book full of angst and had a hard time immersing myself in the story. It's told alternately from the mother's perspective 22 years in the past and the daughter's perspective in the present. I didn't like that tactic of telling the story and found it to be disjointed and distracting. My biggest issue with the story was how an adoption was portrayed. As an adoptive mother I found the author's romanticism of the birth parent bond to be unrealistic and offensive. Spoiler: a child is adopted as an infant. Six years later his birth mother walks into a room and an instant magical connection ensues, resulting in the child being returned to his birth mother. Just no.
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