![]() ![]() I felt bad for them, and all the trauma they’ve been through, but I felt like the secondary characters weren’t fully fleshed out, and despite knowing about Mila’s past, I never fully understood her character, either. ![]() However, I never found myself fully invested in the characters. The flashback scenes were well done, and I enjoyed the gothic-like setting and the blurring of genres/reality with the inclusion of ghosts. It’s December in New York, and college freshman Marin is in her dorm room, contemplating a solitary monthlong stay after everyone else has left for winter break. Lacour handles the themes of this book-loneliness, past trauma, wanting to belong-with care. 14, 2017 If only lonely were a more accurate word. Watch Over Me follows Mila, a young woman who aged out of the foster care system and finds herself taking a teaching job on a remote farm. She is also the co-author, with David Levithan, of You Know Me Well. ![]() Printz Award winning author of We Are Okay, Hold Still, Everything Leads to You and The Disenchantments. Welcome to my last review of the year! As awful as this year has been, I managed to have a great reading year, and read a total of 51 books. Nina LaCour is the bestselling and Michael L. ![]()
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