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The Name She Gave Me by Betty Culley
4.0
“Defect and perfect are so close, only two letters apart. If you say them fast, defect perfect defect perfect, they almost sound the same.”
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Rynn is adopted and her relationship with her adoptive mother isn’t great. The relationship fractures more when her mother finds out that Rynn is looking for her family of blood. After finding out she can’t look until she is 18 due to a closed adoption, she does a search online and finds that she has a sister in a nearby town. This is the story of the challenges of family.
This book broke me. Like physically and mentally broke me. I have never read anything so devastating in my entire life. The family and friendships in this book were so well portrayed. I loved particularly how it shows that friends can be more like family than your own family can, and how they will go to the ends of the earth for you too. The ending wasn’t quite what I was anticipating but the character was happy in her own way.
I’ve never read a fiction book written in verse before so this was a new one for me, and it worked. I was kind of nervous before I started it because I didn’t know what to expect, but it made it so much easier to read, with it all broken into bite size chunks.
Highly recommend for a moving read of familial issues and reconnection!
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Rynn is adopted and her relationship with her adoptive mother isn’t great. The relationship fractures more when her mother finds out that Rynn is looking for her family of blood. After finding out she can’t look until she is 18 due to a closed adoption, she does a search online and finds that she has a sister in a nearby town. This is the story of the challenges of family.
This book broke me. Like physically and mentally broke me. I have never read anything so devastating in my entire life. The family and friendships in this book were so well portrayed. I loved particularly how it shows that friends can be more like family than your own family can, and how they will go to the ends of the earth for you too. The ending wasn’t quite what I was anticipating but the character was happy in her own way.
I’ve never read a fiction book written in verse before so this was a new one for me, and it worked. I was kind of nervous before I started it because I didn’t know what to expect, but it made it so much easier to read, with it all broken into bite size chunks.
Highly recommend for a moving read of familial issues and reconnection!