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A review by karenangela_1
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
1.0
After finding out that the man she believed to be her father wasn't Clarissa abandons her life in new york and heads for lapland looking for her real father. She walks out on her fiance without telling him or anybody else for that matter where she is going.
While it is understandable that she might want some answers I cannot sympathise with her, she is completely unlikeable and is mean and nasty to pretty much everybody she meets along the way even people whose only crime is to be nice to her and help her.
I don't like the way she handled a phone call to her brother who has Down Syndrome and has never spoken, she thinks the way to get a response from him is to shout and swear at him.
I also don't like the ending, she never meets the father that she is looking for as it turns out her mother was raped although she does meet his family and she does find her mother who had walked out on her family when Clarissa was fourteen. The mother and clarissa had been on a christmas shopping trip and she abandoned clarissa at the mall and was never seen again until clarissa finds her in lapland. She feels no remorse for what she did and this upsets clarissa although given that she walked out on her life without telling anybody where she was going and at the end decides that despite being pregnant with her fiance's baby she is not going home and she is not going to tell him about the baby. I don't like that the writer has made it so easy for clarissa to walk away from her life with no complications.
While it is understandable that she might want some answers I cannot sympathise with her, she is completely unlikeable and is mean and nasty to pretty much everybody she meets along the way even people whose only crime is to be nice to her and help her.
I don't like the way she handled a phone call to her brother who has Down Syndrome and has never spoken, she thinks the way to get a response from him is to shout and swear at him.
I also don't like the ending, she never meets the father that she is looking for as it turns out her mother was raped although she does meet his family and she does find her mother who had walked out on her family when Clarissa was fourteen. The mother and clarissa had been on a christmas shopping trip and she abandoned clarissa at the mall and was never seen again until clarissa finds her in lapland. She feels no remorse for what she did and this upsets clarissa although given that she walked out on her life without telling anybody where she was going and at the end decides that despite being pregnant with her fiance's baby she is not going home and she is not going to tell him about the baby. I don't like that the writer has made it so easy for clarissa to walk away from her life with no complications.