2.5 stars

SPOILERS:


I really enjoyed this book up until the ending. I know it’s basically a story about the foster care system and Annie’s personal struggle with her biological family but holy hell, you mean to tell me that you can straight up try to kill your kid and yourself and social services might still give you a chance to parent them in the future?!!!

I know Annie’s sister Sheila is reflective of how broken the system is since she too was a kid uprooted from her toxic family and thrown into even worse foster families but come on...