A review by anka_trini
The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord

3.0

The ending spoilt everything. All those secrets and nobody is angry or hurt. It's all brushed off like: "Growing up means realising that your parents are people, too." I'm sorry, but you're allowed to feel betrayed by your parents when they lied to you and withhold the information from you that you've got a half sister that you're mother had as a teen and gave up for adoption... I don't get how Lucy doesn't even question her parents' decision to sweep every controversial thing her mother did as a teen under the rug. It's all so dishonest!

And then we get an open ending!! Like what?? We don't know what happens AT ALL. What a cop-out!

If you want to read a book that's similiar to this story but better, I would recommend "Second Chance Summer" by Morgan Matson.