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Leap of Faith
by Jamie Blair
Seventeen-year-old girl lives with junkie mom. Junkie mom has a surrogate baby for some other junkies (???) and seventeen-year-old girl kidnaps the baby to give it a better life. Somehow falls into the good graces of the world's most understanding family who takes her and the baby under her wing and oh, also, there's a hot son who falls in love with her and the baby.
For a work of realism, this book was completely out there. Just preposterous most of the time. The writing wasn't anything to write home about, and I wasn't quite sure of the *point* of the story necessarily... buttt I have to say, Blair really captures what would ACTUALLY happen if a 17-year-old impulsively stole a baby. As in, chaotic, barely-above neglectful parenting, intense desperation, and a whole lotta magical thinking. Kind of like watching Teen Mom, but, you know, fiction. So therefore not as awful.
For a work of realism, this book was completely out there. Just preposterous most of the time. The writing wasn't anything to write home about, and I wasn't quite sure of the *point* of the story necessarily... buttt I have to say, Blair really captures what would ACTUALLY happen if a 17-year-old impulsively stole a baby. As in, chaotic, barely-above neglectful parenting, intense desperation, and a whole lotta magical thinking. Kind of like watching Teen Mom, but, you know, fiction. So therefore not as awful.