What will Julie, Martha, and Bruno do when they find a baby?
Julie and Martha Sweet
The first two characters are sisters that are born five years apart. Julie is the eldest sister who raised her sister with their father even though she doesn't seem like she cares about Martha. She is an interesting older sister character. Interesting in the way that she thinks everything she does is better than anyone else. Not only that, but Julie doesn't let anybody challenge her in what she knows is right. Martha, the baby sister, is only six and is trying to do whatever her big sister is doing. She isn't really a character I would think to put into this type of story for one of the main characters. These two sisters got a bit on my nerves as they both didn't seem like good characters. Like they weren't built enough.
Bruno Ben-Eli
Bruno is the baby of the Ben-Eli family and is a year older than Julie. He is on a mission for his brother, even though he doesn't know what for. Bruno is another character like the first two that got on my nerves a bit and that it seemed like he wasn't thought through as well. I wanted to like these characters, but I'm just unsure of them. Like Julie, Bruno thinks he knows everything and even more so because he's a year older. Also, I was not too fond of this character either.
3 Stars
The Summer We Found the Baby by Amy Hest seemed like a good idea, but it wasn't executed properly. The story bounced all over the place during the summer, and then we end up with characters that aren't really thought through enough. I wanted to like this book, but it just wasn't for me. Plus, the way that the author formatted the book made me think that they were always yelling at each other, which makes no sense. If it were written differently and maybe thought through better, with developed characters, then my rating would be different from three stars.
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