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A review by lucsbooks
This Place Is Not My Home by Cyn Bermudez
3.0
This is a very short story that can be read by children or adults alike about very hard subjects. The emails are written by two boys and seeing their lives through their eyes makes very difficult scenes still be characterized by a lot of innocence.
The brothers do not know that their mother will not come back for a very long time but they do now how precarious their situations in the foster homes are and are aware that the adults lie to them all the time even though the truth is always demanded of them. Reading about characters that through no fault of their own are absolutely powerless to change their situation makes the reader connect with them.
The entire book is told through emails, the only way the brothers have of contacting each other, and that single perk is dangled in front of their eyes and withheld as their keepers see fit which leaves a mark in them and make us feel angry in their behalf.
Every scene is absolutely believable, with all of us being aware that a lot worse can happen to foster kids.
The entire book carries a bitter feeling towards a society that could not help a young family remain together and cannot support them as they should be. The importance of brotherly love and keeping the memories of their family alive is underlined throughout the entire book with the older brother constantly reminding the younger of things they used to do as a family and the promise that they will be together again eventually, something that the reader cannot help but hope and doubt at the same time.
Thank you to NetGalley and West 44 Books for this ARC.
The brothers do not know that their mother will not come back for a very long time but they do now how precarious their situations in the foster homes are and are aware that the adults lie to them all the time even though the truth is always demanded of them. Reading about characters that through no fault of their own are absolutely powerless to change their situation makes the reader connect with them.
The entire book is told through emails, the only way the brothers have of contacting each other, and that single perk is dangled in front of their eyes and withheld as their keepers see fit which leaves a mark in them and make us feel angry in their behalf.
Every scene is absolutely believable, with all of us being aware that a lot worse can happen to foster kids.
The entire book carries a bitter feeling towards a society that could not help a young family remain together and cannot support them as they should be. The importance of brotherly love and keeping the memories of their family alive is underlined throughout the entire book with the older brother constantly reminding the younger of things they used to do as a family and the promise that they will be together again eventually, something that the reader cannot help but hope and doubt at the same time.
Thank you to NetGalley and West 44 Books for this ARC.