I really appreciated each situation and their respective hurdles and hardships and I’m glad that readers got to see each situation from that character’s perspective. Each character was so well-rounded, different, and really well represented. I also really enjoyed the three different POVs that shared three different experiences with adoption, family, and just life in general. Robin Benway really does a great job at making sure her characters are well-rounded and that they come off as real people and not just a character in a book and I really loved that in FAR FROM THE TREE. Not every book dealing with real life topics have to have characters who are solemn and I loved the sarcasm and slight comic relief that still came through from some of these characters. It is a serious book but it’s written beautifully and the characters really shine and carry this book. Too often with tough, sensitive, or emotional subjects, I’m just not in the mood or the place mentally to take those on in book form or the writing ends up being a little too much for me, so I loved how Robin Benway crafted this story.

I’m really glad I didn’t skip this book because of its serious content. I’ve been skirting away from more “serious” contemporary fiction lately but I love Robin Benway’s books and I already knew from EMMY & OLIVER that I enjoyed her more realistic fiction style as well as cute, quirky spies. I’m really glad I read FAR FROM THE TREE because this was such a lovely book. After seventeen years in the foster care system, he’s learned that there are no heroes, and secrets and fears are best kept close to the vest, where they can’t hurt anyone but him. And when her adopted family’s long-buried problems begin to explode to the surface, Maya can’t help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs.Īnd Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers. Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including. Related Posts: Also Known As, Going Rogue (Also Known As #2), Emmy & OliverĪ contemporary novel about three adopted siblings who find each other at just the right moment.īeing the middle child has its ups and downs.īut for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Realistic Fictionįind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads

Source: Received from the publisher for review purposes, Edelweiss

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