Honestly I wasn't sure if I was going to finish this book at all. It was so slow going and the super long chapters didn't help either, chapter one alone was 40 pages.
The blurb made a big thing about Minny's autistic sister Aisling being bullied but that was actually only a minor plot point. I do feel like her autism was done fairly well though. At least Ash wasn't a stereotype, she was shown to have feelings and emotions which appears to be a rarity for autistic girls in fiction.
The plot was nothing - their lives - and everything - reemergence of their absent dad with his pregnant girlfriend in tow - at the same time. I didn't really understand Minny and Penny's friendship (other than their names being similar, side note small LGBT representation in Penny having two mums), Selena's obsession with religion and the preoccupation with referring to Raymond as just 'the baby'. Also using Nita's name rather than 'mum' was slightly confusing in places. I liked Franklin though.
2/5 stars.
Stef Out x
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