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Loading... Dead to You (edition 2012)by Lisa McMann
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Being a YA, it's no surprise that this is a quick and easy read. I really liked it and while I see that some readers were disappointed with the end, I was not. I was left with a constriction in my chest and a huge "oh nooooooooooo." I will remember this one. ( ) SEE MY REVIEW HERE: https://leahsbookishobsession2.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-dead-to-you.html 3.5 stars Ethan was only 7-years old when he was kidnapped. He’s now 16 and being reunited with his family – his parents, his younger brother, and a younger sister who is only 6-years old, whom, of course, he hadn’t met until now. Every family member has to learn to deal with this, as they all learn to live together again, after so many years apart. Things definitely are not going smoothly. I like the premise of this book and liked most of the book itself. I wasn’t a fan of the ending. I feel like the penultimate event that happened “fit”, but I didn’t like the result of that event, what happened at the very end. It’s YA, so it was very fast to read. Ethan was seven when he was kidnapped, and is reunited with his family nine years later. At first things are strange between him, his parents, younger brother Blake, and little sister Gracie. He’s upset he can’t remember old family photos, relatives or neighbors, but is sure his memories will resurface. Ethan also has to deal with Blake’s jealousy and increasing anger at his presence. After a few months things start to settle, but a ringing doorbell forever changes life for Ethan. I absolutely DESPISED the ending, and thought it was a complete copout on the author’s part. Why couldn’t she have given a real ending instead of those final three words? I feel like she sold Ethan out, as well as her readers. I was definitely not a happy camper, and took off one star because of the very bad ending. Though I was EXTREMELY upset with the way the book ended, I will leave it up to you readers, ages 14 and older, to decide if you want to read it or not. Book review link: https://shouldireaditornot.wordpress.com/2019/12/29/dead-to-you-lisa-mcmann/ no reviews | add a review
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart. No library descriptions found. |
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