Broken Hearts, Fences, and Other Things to Mend by Katie Finn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a cute book with a moral of why honesty is the best policy.
Gemma makes a bad mistake when she’s 11 trying to stop her parents divorce. It spirals way out of proportion, further than she even knew it could, eventually wrecking a bunch of lives. Now she has a chance to make it right.
When she’s on the train to stay with her dad for the summer, with coffee her friend had bought her for the trip, she meets someone from her past. When she realizes who is is and he assumes her name is “Sophie” because that was the name on her coffee cup, she lets it ride. She thinks this will be a good way for her to prove that she is really a good person and is sorry for what happened in the past. When Josh’s sister, Hallie, picks him up at the train and nearly identifies her, she is happy she decided to be Sophie.
The summer is filled with bad happenstance but Gemma feels like she’s making headway in becoming friends with Hallie again. Still, her lies and avoidance maneuvers end up catching her in the end and she ends up hurting Josh and not really being friends with Hallie after all.
This was a good, quick book. I enjoyed it and look forward to the sequel. 🙂