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allyshathart 's review for:
The Unadoptables
by Hana Tooke
[3,5]
It took me a while to finish the book. I regret that I read the audio book, because when I googled it just now, I saw that there are beautiful illustrations in the book. The characters in the book were well developed, the plot I found less interesting. The disadvantage of the audio book is that the Dutch language is used in the text, which makes it difficult to follow. I speak Dutch, but even I had trouble with this, because the person who recorded the audio book said the words with a strange English accent.
This is normally not a book I pick up, I don't have much interest in historical books, but this book was dark, funny and adventurous and managed to make me want to read on.
When I started this book, I had no idea of the drama involved. Halfway through the book I read some reviews. It became clear that people disagreed with the title of this book and the impact it could have on children in the care system. I understand that you have to be careful about things like that, but it's clear that most of the people who are upset about it have not read the book. As someone who has no connection with the adoption community, you might say that I am not qualified to comment on this argument. But Adoption UK clearly shares this opinion, as they have published a positive review of Hana Tooke's book...
It took me a while to finish the book. I regret that I read the audio book, because when I googled it just now, I saw that there are beautiful illustrations in the book. The characters in the book were well developed, the plot I found less interesting. The disadvantage of the audio book is that the Dutch language is used in the text, which makes it difficult to follow. I speak Dutch, but even I had trouble with this, because the person who recorded the audio book said the words with a strange English accent.
This is normally not a book I pick up, I don't have much interest in historical books, but this book was dark, funny and adventurous and managed to make me want to read on.
When I started this book, I had no idea of the drama involved. Halfway through the book I read some reviews. It became clear that people disagreed with the title of this book and the impact it could have on children in the care system. I understand that you have to be careful about things like that, but it's clear that most of the people who are upset about it have not read the book. As someone who has no connection with the adoption community, you might say that I am not qualified to comment on this argument. But Adoption UK clearly shares this opinion, as they have published a positive review of Hana Tooke's book...