A nice read...a comfort food of literature if we want to take the theme of the book. Nothing much happens, but I liked that! Emoni had already had a child at fourteen, she’d had enough drama in her life, and this was the story of how she cooed. There’s no scandalous moments or dramatic explosions, just a girl coping with the lot that life gave her. It’s predictable, it’s a ‘happily-ever-after’ story, but that’s exactly what it needs to be to seem realistic.
The characters were likeable and realistic (including the way they talked); showing that there are good guys, and not so nice guys out there in the world.
My one annoyance was that Emoni’s main concern for most of the book was whether she could raise the money for her school trip to Spain. Surely whether she could actually go when she has a child of her own should have been her main concern? But it doesn’t crop up until a couple of hundred pages in.
Overall a decent young adult read, one I will be recommending to my book club.
The characters were likeable and realistic (including the way they talked); showing that there are good guys, and not so nice guys out there in the world.
My one annoyance was that Emoni’s main concern for most of the book was whether she could raise the money for her school trip to Spain. Surely whether she could actually go when she has a child of her own should have been her main concern? But it doesn’t crop up until a couple of hundred pages in.
Overall a decent young adult read, one I will be recommending to my book club.