Review: good gentle story about healing and love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2013
I LOVED Blind Sided also by this author.  When I saw another book by this author I jumped on it.  I liked this book too, not as much as Blind Sided, but it was a Good heart warming story.It is about a girl who was born in Russia then something terrible and tragic happened to her family and she was shipped off to live with her Aunt Lidia in America.  The book starts with her escaping Aunt Lidia 9 years later.The book is not action packed, but is the story of her learning to live and accepting herself as she lays down the pieces of her past and learns to forgive, accept and move on.  It is about a man that really loves her.  And about her becoming the person that her parents always intended for her to become.The main strength of this story is how it is told.  We don't know what happened to her family at the beginning.  We only know she feels guilty about it.  We don't know the extent of what she endured afterwords, we just see her becoming free physically and then, not as quickly, emotionally. I loved "Mr. Thorpe" and how he progresses in my imagination to "Simon".The best part though, is in the chapter called "Nika Insults the Russians".  I still laugh out loud about that part.