happiestwhenreading 's review for:

Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig

2.0

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I'm not sure what happened with this book, but I hated it from the beginning and the feeling never went away. I appreciate the subject matter and I understand the author's decision to use simple sentences and dialogue, but it could have been accomplished in a much better way. Ginny Moon is a 14-year-old girl with autism who's now in her third adoptive home since being taken away from her abusive and neglectful birth mom. She continually tried to communicate with the adults around her about something (not including because I don't want to spoil anything) very important, and for whatever reason, the adults are too dense to understand and help her. This drove me crazy for two reasons: 1.) really!? It didn't help the plot at all to have these adults ignore her, and 2.) it led to A LOT of repetitiveness throughout the entire book. I hate when things are repeated without having a point. I found myself skimming much of the book, and if I were a person that can abandon books, I would have! The characters were poorly developed and I found that I didn't care about any of them. I read that the author wanted to write a book that encouraged adoption of children with different abilities, but I feel like this book did the opposite. The "Forever Mom" was detached and clueless; the "Forever Dad" was a much more sympathetic character, but again, poorly developed so he didn't really add to the story. This book just fell flat for me in so many ways. I had high hopes, but this didn't meet those expectations.