Fourth comment!

I have to say I loved this book all the way through actually. It was a novel that left you with feeling good, and taught us some lessons about unity and sticking up for yourself along the way. I 100% agree with you about T Ray’s last scene, I think he totally gives up on his daughter who seems to be in a great place right now. I think he. Might have even realized that he was wrong and treated her horrible her whole life, that maybe he just decided to let her be on her own and grow into the young woman that she is becoming. That is horrible of T Ray to give up like that but I’m happy Lily found her happy place with the Boatwrights. 

I like how  the writer ended on a lighter note, that Lily gets to go to school with Zach and the amount of “mothers” she has gained through this journey. I thought too that August was one of the biggest people who helped shaped Lily’s character, along with Rosaleen’s help too. Rosaleen was there  when Lily was growing up, and now August is here to help her with her teenage years. This goes back to the theme of feminism and female unity which I appreciate greatly in this novel. Lily even forgives her own mother after experience how hard it can be to forgive someone. In the first few lines of the last chapter Lily tells us, “People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It’s that hard” (277). This is very true for every single human, no matter how kind you are. And if I can say one thing about this novel is that forgiveness can change the way someone lives their life, just in the way that Lily changed hers. 

Overall, I am very satisfied with  our first choice  of a MOR and it felt good to read a book in just one month!