Review: A Million Little Snowflakes
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
I have mixed feelings on this book...which I guess is good because I know it isn't one that will leave my thoughts any time soon.I was particularly interested in the premise of this book because I am all to familiar with what depression and mental illness can do to a person, to a family.  I've watched somebody I love suffer and from the moment I read the premise of this book, I connected with it.  I was also hoping that maybe, just maybe, it would allow a little insight into what my loved one might be going through.I will admit that it took me a few chapters to get into the reading groove -- until I remembered that it was a teen boy telling this story.  THEN it clicked.  And as many times as I've rolled my eyes when I read a book with completely unrealistic male dialogue and word choices, I should have totally realized this sooner.This boy was written like a boy speaks.  Not a male author.  The story and it's words were brief and to the point, and most of all, believable.And the characters -- they completely got to me.  Oliver and Lacey...and good GOD, Oliver's mother was an absolute wretched wretched woman.  I wanted to reach inside the pages and smack her.  Hard.  And repeatedly.By the end of the book, I felt very good about where things were.  Even with the open endings regarding some of the arcs, I felt like this journey was complete.  Sure Oliver and his family had a long road ahead of them, but this point, this chapter in it all was done and I was okay with that.Until the last few paragraphs.This is NOT my amused face.So yeah...I'm not going to spoil the ending because I don't believe in spoilers...but lets just say that I read it twice to make sure those words were really there.Blindsided doesn't even begin to cover it.Happy reading!**I received a copy from the author in exchange for an honest review**