No one is all good or all bad in Happy Families - people are as they really are, complex, caring, and flawed. Despite this difficulty, I thought that Justin and Ysabel, and their parents, were strong characters. This would, however, make an excellent two-narrator audiobook. I wish that publishers would use different fonts, or something. As is often the case for me with multi-narrator books, I occasionally had trouble keeping track of which character was speaking. The story is told in alternating first person chapters by Justin and Ysabel. Suffice it to say that Happy Families is a book that made me think, made me sympathetic to Ysabel and Justin, and made me wonder how I would react to their family's situation. It's a bit hard to discuss the book without revealing the secret, but if the publisher chose to keep it off the book jacket, it doesn't feel like my place to give it away in a review. Their happy family is blown apart when their father reveals a life-altering secret. Although Tanita and I haven't technically met (what with her living in Scotland for the past 5 years all), I certainly number her among friends.Īnyway, Happy Families is a young adult novel about talented teenage twins, Ysabel and Justin. It seemed fitting to read a book by one of my Kidlitosphere pals for this community-building event. My second book for the 2012 48 Hour Book Challenge was Happy Families by Tanita Davis.
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