Compelling story and characters! Big moments and lessons about love, acceptance, and forgiveness.

I wish the book would have given us some closure.

A great story about a love within a family. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is I thought some parts moved a little slow but overall it was really good.

Ground breaking!!!!! Beautiful, coming of age book

This book is a stunning depiction of exquisite storytelling. I am so grateful to have read its pages.

Whew this was 400 pages of the most boring storyline ever. I wouldn’t recommend this book.

This is well written and compelling novel about mental illness and the importance of an “extra pair of eyes” to discover who you can become. Isolated male meets vivacious women who plans his life but when the plan crumbles he turns on himself as undeserving, makes suicide attempt and that open a path to new authentic life for him. This novel contains heartbreaking tragedy, mistakes, forgiveness and love.

It starts off too slow, taking too long to lay the groundwork for the story. I was invested by the end but it shouldn’t take that long for a book to reel you in.

Must read for anyone with sisters

I wanted to love this book but did not. Though the author likely grew up in an Italian family, as I did, I found the descriptions of family life, esp. those about Rose, egregious and unflattering stereotypes. As others have pointed out, the characters seem to come from a template on how to write the 4-character book. I, too, was speed-reading to see what the “there” was, and felt the end was rushed.