Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life...until now.
Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.
My Rating: 2/5
I read I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan back in 2015 and remember rather enjoying it so I found this book really disappointing.
The main issue I had with this book was how unrealistic it was and I just was never able to see past this.
I also remember feeling like this book dragged on and was a hundred pages or so too long. I read maybe 75% of it and then put it down for months before finishing it.
Willow the protagonist was around 12 years old but felt much younger.
Having read other reviews on this book I think I might have to give this book another go and I obviously missed something but it will have to be in a few years time.
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