A review by juliettesebock
Songbirds and Stray Dogs by Meagan Lucas

5.0

*I received a copy of Meagan Lucas’ Songbirds and Stray Dogs for review purposes. As always, this review reflects only my honest thoughts on the book.*

I was pretty confident I’d enjoy Meagan Lucas’ debut novel, but by no means did I suspect the intense emotions that came with it.

Songbirds and Stray Dogs follows Jolene, a 21-year-old newly pregnant woman whose life has come crashing down around it, and with it, any semblance of an innocent childhood she had left. Her mother, an addict, left her with her Aunt Rachel as a young girl and forced her to grow up quickly as she strove to impress her aunt and avoid following in her mother’s footsteps. And yet . . . .

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