Series: Hetty Feather #1
Publication date: October 15, 2013
Publisher: Montlake Romance
ISBN-13: 9781477807590
Synopsis
No baby cried like Hetty Feather, a restless little sprout that
when it came down to size it wasn’t looked over twice, but when it came to her
crying no one could controller. Life decided to be as kind as it was cruel to
the child.
First they let her out of the hospital and give her a family, a
mother, a father, brothers, sisters and her dearest Jem. Only to be taken back
to that horrid place, but the fire that has been in her will not let her
settle.
Her new life of uniforms and strict rules doesn’t diminish Hetty’s
ability to make believe or to remember that she was loved in her foster home,
which mixed with her passionate character, sets her apart like a sour thumb.
The fact that she was
abandoned at birth doesn’t diminish Hetty’s hopes to find her real mother, but
even with vague memories of her babyhood she doesn’t have much to go by. An she
really find the woman that left her and find the truth about her origins?
Review
This was my first experience with an unreliable narrator that was
full of imagination yet at the same time didn’t get to hide her own little
childish selfishness or how strong she can really be.
Hetty’s story takes you through the ups and downs of life, how she
was loved even when her personality got the best of her and out of her mother,
how even when life was hard Hetty could be strong for others and how can a girl
that went by her own code fit in a place such as the hospital.
This is a book that talks about lost, about adoption and being an
orphan. It is not a Disney version book but it is not a book full of darkness
and tragedy, it is stuck somewhere in the middle.
The way Jacqueline Wilson gave voice and took us throughout the
story was one of my favorite things about this book, the narration just made
this book an entertaining read, never giving you more then you should know but
in a way showing enough that you could make theories as to what could happen
next in the story.
Rating:
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