Ratings12
Average rating3.3
Started this in August 2017 and somehow didn't get back to it till January 2018 - I'm not sure whether I would have liked it more if I'd managed to read it over a shorter time frame, but it was pretty easy to pick up again. The story kind of lost focus for me after the road trip ended and the last 15% or so of the book kind of meandered around with no real resolutions to most of the character arcs. The non-translated Chinese, which a lot of reviews have commented on, was a little difficult, but usually not essential to understanding (or when it was, it was pretty easy to figure out the gist from context). The strongest parts of the book to me were the characters of the children and their relationships with each other, particularly Grace. I could've read the entire book from her POV and possibly enjoyed it even more.