By: Lisa Wingate
Plot: This story is told from two perspectives, in the present there is Avery who believes that her grandmother is hiding something and starts digging into her past. Then the story of Rill Foss being told from the past. Her and her siblings are basically stolen from their parents and put into a children's home and 'adopted' out for large sums of money. It's a huge scam and travesty!
My Thoughts: This book was so dang sad! It took me a really long time to get through this book. I just didn't have the heart to read it because the story was depressing. I decided I'm too post-partum to read about anything bad happening to children. I enjoyed the writing, I liked the characters, and the plot was interesting but sad! I probably only made it through this book because every other chapter was from Avery's perspective. There were quite a few times when I had to look and see how many pages were left until I would get to Avery's chapter. The fact that anything like this ever happened is horrifying!
One thing that I thought was so weird was that the sisters decided to keep everything secret. Who cares that you already are married and with families of your own? All the more reason to get your families together! Wouldn't they want their children to know their aunts and uncles? They did nothing wrong, why should they keep this as some deep, dark secret that they are ashamed of? Also are Senators really that scrutinized? Maybe I'm just naive but that seemed over the top. They acted as if he was the President. Am I the only one that thought that Grandma Judy was Camille the whole time? It was reassuring to think that she made it out okay, but how they never found out what happened to her! Crying face.
Rating: 4/5 I don't know that I can say that I enjoyed this book, just because of the subject matter, but it is a good book. Good but sad. Have I mentioned how sad the book is?