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A review by holly2kidsandtired
A Thousand Voices by Lisa Wingate
2.0
This was my least favorite of all the Lisa Wingate books I've read. It's a sequel to her previous books, "Tending Roses" and "The Language of the Sycamores" and continues the story of Dell, who was adopted by Karen and James.
Dell has been loved and mentored by her adoptive parents and given every opportunity to study and learn and travel. At twenty, she is feeling the pressure to attend Juilliard and continue her music. However, she has always wondered about her birth parents and her Native American heritage. Why did her mother abandon her, who was her father?
Dell decides to find out who her father is and sets off on her own, secret trip to Oklahoma and the land of her Choctaw ancestors. Along the way, as with every Wingate story, she finds bits of herself. Again, with sequels, past characters crop up here and there.
I like Dell and I appreciated that Lisa Wingate wanted to tell her story. I found it very contrived though. The ending isn't believable and wraps up far too neatly.
Dell has been loved and mentored by her adoptive parents and given every opportunity to study and learn and travel. At twenty, she is feeling the pressure to attend Juilliard and continue her music. However, she has always wondered about her birth parents and her Native American heritage. Why did her mother abandon her, who was her father?
Dell decides to find out who her father is and sets off on her own, secret trip to Oklahoma and the land of her Choctaw ancestors. Along the way, as with every Wingate story, she finds bits of herself. Again, with sequels, past characters crop up here and there.
I like Dell and I appreciated that Lisa Wingate wanted to tell her story. I found it very contrived though. The ending isn't believable and wraps up far too neatly.