Review: Excellent Read!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2011
Blueberry Truth by Ute Carbone is one of those novels that may well stay with readers for a long time. Carbone's ability to create believable characters that readers will care about and practically fall in love is first rate. From the first page, readers are drawn into Verbena "Beanie" Mackenzie's whirlwind perfect life: Beanie is the do-good teacher working with special needs kids at St. Luke's and her husband Mac is the gifted pediatric cardiologist. Where, at first, it would seem to be cliché to have Beanie married to her childhood sweetheart; Carbone deftly defines the complexities of their relationship and allows for the hidden flaws in both of them. All Beanie and Mac seem to want is a baby, something that hasn't worked out for them. This, alone, seems to be driving them further apart. Then, along comes Blueberry Truth whose proficiency with the F-word is more developed than the adults who surround her. At seven, Blueberry Truth appears to be already broken, having suffered at the hands of her abusive uncle and apparently abandoned by her drug-addicted mother. All Blue wants is to find her mother, which is at odds with Beanie and Mac's implicit attempts to rescue the girl each in their own way. It isn't just Blueberry Truth who must find her way, but Beanie and Mac as well.I love Carbon's refined writing style; her subtlety shows readers how all these characters grow and change throughout the story.Blueberry Truthis an excellent read by a very promising author.