I felt bad for them, and all the trauma they’ve been through, but I felt like the secondary characters weren’t fully fleshed out, and despite knowing about Mila’s past, I never fully understood her character, either. By Nina LaCour Age Range: 14 and up Hardback: 320 pages Publisher: Dutton Books (May 15, 2014) ISBN: 978-8-5 What to expect: Love, Los Angeles, Career, Film Design, Talented young set designer Emi can dream up rich and complex room concepts from spare scraps of fabric and sad and neglected estate sale possessions. However, I never found myself fully invested in the characters. The flashback scenes were well done, and I enjoyed the gothic-like setting and the blurring of genres/reality with the inclusion of ghosts. Lacour handles the themes of this book-loneliness, past trauma, wanting to belong-with care. Watch Over Me follows Mila, a young woman who aged out of the foster care system and finds herself taking a teaching job on a remote farm. Welcome to my last review of the year! As awful as this year has been, I managed to have a great reading year, and read a total of 51 books.
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