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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
This book broke my heart. The ending had me on the edge of my seat.
Another one of my all time favorite books! The end is soooo sooo sooo good! Theres an interesting twist and it's just compelling to read. This book is such an emotional roller coaster through a young girls life. I very highly reccomend this book to anyone, its an easy read and very interesting.
It kept me interested and the way it ends is really shocking, I never saw it coming!
Oh my gosh, this book is just heartbreaking! Couldn't I find a more uplifting book over Christmas break? The sadness and hope in this book will stay with you for a while.
It's hard to say you like a book when it is a very sad story about child abuse and poverty. The book was a page turner for me because I wanted to find out what happens to Caroline and Emma. The author made all the characters very believable. The ending I did not see coming.
I really enjoyed the voice of Carrie in this novel. And, honestly, I admit to liking books where a bunch of terrible things happen to a character, and that's just the whole plot. This may be a holdover from my Oprah's Book Club days.
And speaking of those days, I'm sure I would have loved this in middle school. This must be how people feel when they grow out of YA. . . I remember being the me who would have loved Me & Emma, but I'm just not that person anymore.
The climax of the book was very dependent on the twist, and I'm sorry to be that smarty-pants reviewer, but I could figure it out from the synopsis, let alone reading the book itself. I had been hoping it would be revealed midway through and dissected and spun out some more to add some meat and intrigue, such that it could be enjoyed by readers who have seen this trope before, but it comes at the last minute, and thus falls rather flat if guessed.
I'm really not a smart person or a snobby reader. One of my favorite books is Flowers In The Attic. And I think Oprah's Book Club actually made a lot of good picks, in between the dodgy ones. Sorry for being that person who announced that she figured it out. I was curious about this, and now I no longer have to be curious.
And speaking of those days, I'm sure I would have loved this in middle school. This must be how people feel when they grow out of YA. . . I remember being the me who would have loved Me & Emma, but I'm just not that person anymore.
The climax of the book was very dependent on the twist, and I'm sorry to be that smarty-pants reviewer, but I could figure it out from the synopsis, let alone reading the book itself. I had been hoping it would be revealed midway through and dissected and spun out some more to add some meat and intrigue, such that it could be enjoyed by readers who have seen this trope before, but it comes at the last minute, and thus falls rather flat if guessed.
I'm really not a smart person or a snobby reader. One of my favorite books is Flowers In The Attic. And I think Oprah's Book Club actually made a lot of good picks, in between the dodgy ones. Sorry for being that person who announced that she figured it out. I was curious about this, and now I no longer have to be curious.
Watch out, there's a "surprise ending." Authors like to do that, don't they.
The little kid grammer was a bit grating, but otherwise a pleasureable read.
The little kid grammer was a bit grating, but otherwise a pleasureable read.
Initially, the narrator’s voice irritated me. After trudging through it for a few chapters I learned that the narrator was actually an 8-year-old girl living in the South with a poor upbringing, a mentally vacant mother, and an abusive step-father . The language and diction made sense after that. I thought I had the ending figured out, but Flock turns the plot around and throws the reader through a loop towards the end. If it wasn’t the unexpected ending, I probably wouldn’t have been as impressed with this piece as I am.
Carrie and her little sister Emma are living a hard life. Ever since their Daddy died and their Momma married Richard Parker, their lives have been hell. Richard is an abusive alcoholic and their mother does nothing to stick up for them or even really to raise them. The two girls get by however they can. Until one day enough is enough and in a drunken stupor Richard tells Carrie that he has killed Emma. Furious that he has hurt her baby sister, Carrie goes and fetches a gun from Mr Wilson's house (who has been teaching her to shoot) and shoots Richard dead. When Carrie comes to, she tells her mother and the sheriff how Richard killed Emma so she had no choice but to shoot him. Catch is - Emma never existed. She is Carrie's imaginary friend!!
This book started v.e.r.y slow for me and I had a hard time reading it. It picked up about 200 pages in though and I found it easier to read. I really liked then twist at the end howEmma never really existed. I felt that that was a twist that no one ever would have suspected no matter what! Which made up a bit for the book being so slow at the beginning.
Three stars for this one.
This book started v.e.r.y slow for me and I had a hard time reading it. It picked up about 200 pages in though and I found it easier to read. I really liked then twist at the end how
Three stars for this one.