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Jun 03, 2017
There was a lot of good hype about this novel, and I really, really wanted to love it as much as the critics did, but I didn't. I liked it, but overall, it fell a little flat for me. I'm not even certain what the reason was - I liked the character, Ginny, but I really didn't connect with her. (Perhaps this was intentional on the author's part, since in the story Ginny has a hard time connecting with the people around her.) I enjoyed reading about Ginny's journey through foster care and living with her "Forever Family", but I wish the author would have shown more growth of Ginny's character during the novel. In the end, I thought the story ended quite abruptly, and while Ginny seems to be turning a bit of a corner and discovering, to a small degree, where she belongs, it just wasn't enough character development for me. At the end of the novel, I couldn't help thinking that Ginny would likely resort to her same antics again.