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A review by prettymonsters
Abandoned Girl by Lexie Winston
4.0
I'm a Fantasy Girl and don't venture out into contemporary very often but when I saw book 1 of this series was available with my audible subscription I decided to give it a try and big round applause for this Drama-Filled addicting Friends to Family to Enemies to (hopefully) Lovers Why Choose Romance.
Not only was the audiobook well done, with just two narrators, but the storyline was nail-biting, sitting on the edge of your seat enthralling. This could be a TV show, in fact, it reminds me a bit of the CW show Dynasty.
The story centers around the FMC a girl who grew up with a drug addict negligent mother. Thankfully friends of her mother took her in and gave her a wonderful home to grow up in. At the start of Book One, the negligent mother dies and the FMC finds her birth certificate while cleaning out her mother's trailer, a birth certificate that had the name of her father that she never knew about. The good news is her adopted family knows her real father and he has always wanted kids of his own but couldn't conceive after contracting mumps, and he's so excited to get to know the daughter he never knew.
However, since Daddy Dearsts couldn't conceive kids he adopted 7 of them. He's a very rich man and head of Neighpalm Industries which seems to have a hand in every investment cookie jar. So far we learned about Airplane lines, Clothing, Film Production, and even a Tattoo parlor just to name a few. All the kids seem to work in different areas of the family business and love thier adopted father. However, they all came from less-than-ideal circumstances before being adopted, and after grew up very rich. This caused them to have less-than-ideal interactions with people who wanted to use them for thier money or status. It seems they've had too many bad experiences in relationships of any kind. This has made them a close-knit family who don't trust outsiders easily.
All the kids in the family immediately decide that thier adopted father's real daughter must be a gold digger user of some kind and make no secret of what they think of her time and time again. They bully and demean her in private. The FMC however is not easily cowed and her Father and grandparents are thrilled to have her come out to the family estate so she can get closer with the family. She decides to give it a try but she has prospects, went to school and became a Veterinarian, helps take care of the horses at her adopted family's ranch. She's willing to try and make a relationship with this new family work, but can always go back to the only place she's ever truly called home.
She puts up with more than I would have and gives back a good bit not letting them walk all over her. But that doesn't mean she isn't affected by thier cruelty, she's not made of stone and breaks down at times when things go too far, as they did at the end of book one. I won't give you any spoilers but those spoiled step-siblings of hers are in for a reckoning.
I hope those brats will pull thier heads out of the sand soon, actually, a few of them have already started but still didn't stop the others from unveiling thier cruel prank. So they all need to start apologizing starting with the only step-sister, all the other step-siblings are boys. Sadly the evil step-sister needs more time to come around, and I think she will because she doesn't seem to be evil just delusional.
I enjoyed this, it was a good balance of drama and storytelling with interesting characters that I'm looking forward to learning more about. I'm only sad that Audible only has book one available with the subscription and now I want to listen to them all. I'll probably switch to reading at some point but for now, I'll be spending some of those credits I've saved up.
Not only was the audiobook well done, with just two narrators, but the storyline was nail-biting, sitting on the edge of your seat enthralling. This could be a TV show, in fact, it reminds me a bit of the CW show Dynasty.
The story centers around the FMC a girl who grew up with a drug addict negligent mother. Thankfully friends of her mother took her in and gave her a wonderful home to grow up in. At the start of Book One, the negligent mother dies and the FMC finds her birth certificate while cleaning out her mother's trailer, a birth certificate that had the name of her father that she never knew about. The good news is her adopted family knows her real father and he has always wanted kids of his own but couldn't conceive after contracting mumps, and he's so excited to get to know the daughter he never knew.
However, since Daddy Dearsts couldn't conceive kids he adopted 7 of them. He's a very rich man and head of Neighpalm Industries which seems to have a hand in every investment cookie jar. So far we learned about Airplane lines, Clothing, Film Production, and even a Tattoo parlor just to name a few. All the kids seem to work in different areas of the family business and love thier adopted father. However, they all came from less-than-ideal circumstances before being adopted, and after grew up very rich. This caused them to have less-than-ideal interactions with people who wanted to use them for thier money or status. It seems they've had too many bad experiences in relationships of any kind. This has made them a close-knit family who don't trust outsiders easily.
All the kids in the family immediately decide that thier adopted father's real daughter must be a gold digger user of some kind and make no secret of what they think of her time and time again. They bully and demean her in private. The FMC however is not easily cowed and her Father and grandparents are thrilled to have her come out to the family estate so she can get closer with the family. She decides to give it a try but she has prospects, went to school and became a Veterinarian, helps take care of the horses at her adopted family's ranch. She's willing to try and make a relationship with this new family work, but can always go back to the only place she's ever truly called home.
She puts up with more than I would have and gives back a good bit not letting them walk all over her. But that doesn't mean she isn't affected by thier cruelty, she's not made of stone and breaks down at times when things go too far, as they did at the end of book one. I won't give you any spoilers but those spoiled step-siblings of hers are in for a reckoning.
I hope those brats will pull thier heads out of the sand soon, actually, a few of them have already started but still didn't stop the others from unveiling thier cruel prank. So they all need to start apologizing starting with the only step-sister, all the other step-siblings are boys. Sadly the evil step-sister needs more time to come around, and I think she will because she doesn't seem to be evil just delusional.
I enjoyed this, it was a good balance of drama and storytelling with interesting characters that I'm looking forward to learning more about. I'm only sad that Audible only has book one available with the subscription and now I want to listen to them all. I'll probably switch to reading at some point but for now, I'll be spending some of those credits I've saved up.