Review: Wonderfully real characters!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
Libby Bateson spent eight years on her own barely making ends meet. At 17, she lost her mother and her brother. When she gets pregnant, her father hands her money and puts her on a bus, telling her to never come back to the farm and small town where she was raised. Without finishing high school, Libby has struggled to make a good life for her daughter, Nicole, and not look back. When a combination of events force her to make the decision to go home for a few months to get on her feet, she faces an up hill battle.Libby's situation broke my heart from the beginning. I found myself rooting for her to get her life back. Her father doesn't make it easy for her, and neither does the town with all their questions, but she holds her head high and fights for her and Nicole's future. When things heat up with her neighbor, Gibson (who was also her brother's best friend), they both struggle with their relationship, trust, and facing their own short-comings.A Daughter's Place was another of CJ Carmichal's books that I couldn't put down. The character's were real people that I felt could be anyone and, while the ending was everything I hoped, I hated reaching the last page!