Read in March
368 pages
The title characters in Me & Emma are very nearly photographic opposites--8-year-old Carrie, the raven-haired narrator, is timid and introverted, while her little sister Emma is a tow-headed powerhouse with no sense of fear. The girls live in a terrible situation: they depend on an unstable mother that has never recovered from her husband’s murder, their stepfather beats them regularly, and they must forage on their own for food.
I picked up this book just after Christmas and have been putting it off. Finally I picked it up a day or so after finishing up Shelter Me. It really only took me about 2 days to read this book. At first I was a bit annoyed because the story is told from 8 year old Carrie's perspective and therefore almost rambles and speaks like an 8 year old would, and add the deep southern Carolina accent and I found myself rereading a lot of sentences here and there. Soon enough I got use to the writting and grew to really appriciate it more because I really started feeling for Carrie. This book makes me want to cry for her for the terrible situation she was in. About half way through the book the end was becoming more and more predictable, however, I was so wrapped up in Flock's story telling that I didn't seem to mind. Once I started getting into the predictable twist toward the end I found I couldn't put the book down. Poor Mollie was trying everything she could think of to get my attention and I just couldn't put down my book, I wanted to know what was happening to poor Carrie and Emma. This is the first book of Flock's that I have read and I am looking forward to reading more of her books. She's a great story teller. She has a website, check out the links below.
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