It took me a long time to write this review because I have mixed feelings about this book. I think I wanted to like it more than I actually did. Carey and her younger sister have spent ten years living in the woods with their drug-addicted mother. After their mother disappears, they are sent to li...
If You Find Me (side note: I always want to call this book “If You Can Find Me.” I don’t know why) follows fifteen-year-old Carey and six-year-old Janessa, who have grown up in a camper in the middle of the “Hundred Acre Wood” in Tennessee. Their mother went out for supplies over a month ago and nev...
Initial reaction: I loved the writing, the voice and the honesty in this narrative, even if there were some parts of it I had to suspend disbelief for. It was well worth the time, and hopefully I expound on why in the full review.Full review:Emily Murdoch's "If You Find Me" was such an emotionally g...
Oh. Oh wow. If you find me was.... Amazing, actually. Stayed up late finishing it. Cried a bit every now and again, trying not to wake the man snoring next to me. I might pull myself together enough to write an actual review, but just... Oh. Everybody needs to read it. Srsly. It contains harsh el...
What an utterly gorgeous and heartbreaking story. Apparently If You Find Me is a debut novel, but I'll tell you now that it doesn't read like one. Emily Murdoch writes like a seasoned professional. This story broke me, and put me back together in an entirely different configuration. Pure love is all...
I started out listening to the audiobook for If You Find Me. But about halfway through, I found that I didn't like the narrator's accents or voices for the characters. So, instead, I finished by reading the book. That being said, I did enjoy the book immensely. It is a sad and haunting story of t...
4.5/5Such a powerful book full of raw emotion and sisterly love. I absolutely adored the focus on family here and my heart completely went out to Carey and Nessa. If you have a younger sibling you might understand what it means to fiercely love them and to do anything for them. -- Full review to com...
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