A review by abigailbat
My Life in Dioramas by Tara Altebrando

2.0

This book was fine. I like the concept - the idea of a girl saying goodbye to the house she's known all her life by making dioramas of each room is a poignant and sweet one. Kate's also dealing with her mom's depression and her parents' sense of failure in losing the house that they also loved so much. But it felt like a couple of different books jammed into one in a way that didn't quite work for me. There's the madcap plot of Kate trying to find ways to stink up her house, the poignant story of a girl dealing with losing her home and her parents' sense of failure, and then the end kind of started reading like real estate listings, which I feel like is not going to really interest kids too much.

I mean, it was fine. But (to me) that's all.