Up until page 245 or so, it was a wonderfully well-put-together tale of one woman who was orphaned and put for adoption in the 1920's Orphan Trains, interlaced with a modern day's girl's similar tale of foster care woes. It is lyrical, with kindness but also brutality, a book you wouldn't mind passing on to your great aunt.
That said, this book had an extra 33 pages tacked on to the end, spinning the book out-of-control into a WTfreakin' bizarro ending where none of the characters act like themselves, the main character does a complete 180 turn against the values she's learned throughout the book, and additional tidbits are sloppily thrown in for no apparent reason. I would put a 30% marker that some intern at Wm. Morrow threw this on while it was on the way out the door to the publisher.
5 star to Page 245 2 star to page 278
That said, this book had an extra 33 pages tacked on to the end, spinning the book out-of-control into a WTfreakin' bizarro ending where none of the characters act like themselves, the main character does a complete 180 turn against the values she's learned throughout the book, and additional tidbits are sloppily thrown in for no apparent reason. I would put a 30% marker that some intern at Wm. Morrow threw this on while it was on the way out the door to the publisher.
5 star to Page 245 2 star to page 278
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