Author: Ellen Hopkins
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, LGBT, Verse
Pages: 608
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Year Published: 2017
Format: Library Copy
"For as long as she can remember, it's been just Ariel and Dad. Ariel's mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is wherever the two of them are, but Ariel is now seventeen and after years of new apartments, new schools and new faces, all she wants is to put down some roots. Complicating things are Monica and Gabe, both of whom have stirred a different kind of desire.
Maya's a teenager who's run from an abusive mother right into the arms of an older man she thinks she can trust. But not she's isolated with a baby on the way, and life's getting more complicated than Maya ever could have imagined.
Ariel and Maya's lives collide unexpectedly when Ariel's mother shows up out of the blue with wild accusations: Ariel wasn't abandoned. Her father kidnapped her fourteen years ago.
What is Ariel supposed to believe? Is it possible Dad's woven her entire history into a tapestry of lies? How can she choose between the mother she's been taught to mistrust and the father who has taken care of her all these years?"
My Rating: 2/5
After writing out that synopsis I'm a little confused on the point of this story. I thought that the whole idea was finding out how Maya and Ariel connected and what happened all those years ago. But the description pretty much does it justice.
I have read other works by Ellen Hopkins in the past, mainly while I was in high school and I will say that I do love the use of verse in her stories. In other novels, it helps to capture a feeling that words might be able to describe and keep the reader hooked. In this story I just found it to be drawn out and frustrating. Overall this book was ok for me, but I'm not sure I understand the purpose other than to inform people about the issues of spousal kidnapping (it's more common than you think).
Thanks for reading,
Sidny
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