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I enjoyed this one. A bit of "chick lit", it may be categorised, but as with any good book it was more than that. The characters were interesting and fun, and I cared about them, which is always the most important thing to me.

Quite a nice low-key story.
A story about feeling different, and finding acceptance.

I kinda want to take one star off for the "trilogy-turned-four-book-series-turning-five-book-series-you-better-figure-out-how-to-end-this-thing,-Mr-Weeks" thing... But, I can't.

And I kind of want to take a star off as a writer shaking a clenched fist and screaming "Damn you, Mr Weeks!" But, I can't.

I will just have to go back to writing my own stories that'll never be quite this epic and admire this work from afar.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this story, Mr Weeks.

What a lot of punch a 3 chapter book can hold!
Who would have thought?
I just read this book to my 6-year-old son, who missed a great deal of the messages contained herein--thought I tried to explain them as best I could--and promised we would read it again in future, and that he would understand more and more each time.
At its most basic, it's the story of a boy being shut in a storage room by his angry grandmother, where he discovers a genie. The genie tells him the story of his great-great-great-(many greats) grandfather.
Dig a little further and it is a tale of tolerance, of wisdom.

Funny. The best way to look at pregnancy and early parenthood. You have to laugh.

I liked it.
I like what the book is aiming for.
While clever, I didn't love the writing style simply because it's not the kind of style that draws you in so you basically experience the events along with the MC, mainly because it is a recounting on events and jumps around all over the show occasionally. This is not a comment on the quality of the writing, or talent. Simply my enjoyment.
That being said, I was constantly reading when I got a moment to find out how things played out.
Interesting re-reading it now and seeing the similarities in the events that led to the regime in the book and what's happening in our own world. While there are technological differences that might affect how such a thing played out, it's still scarily possible.

Again, could be a five, and it just may be where I'm at in life at the mo, or something.
These are really good books. And I plan to get the physical copies for my book shelves so my sons can pick them up and read them when they're a bit older.
Enjoy the characters and overall story. There's just something standing between me and an "Oh my god, I LOVE these books!"... As mentioned on previous books in the series' I think it's the style of 1st person narrative chosen. This is purely a personal opinion/response. I'm sure others take no issue.

Enjoyed a great deal. Awesome debut and start to a series.
Shame about the typography errors. I kept trying to figure out if they were from text-to-speech errors or hand-writing recognition... Either way, they should have been ironed out in editing. Interesting (to me as an author) that going with a publisher doesn't guarantee this.

I enjoyed it. But for anyone who reads Gerritson fit the drama & intrigue more than the romance, I would just "warn" them this is more romancy. I didn't feel the same sense of a ticking clock as her other books have.

Nice mix of drama & a little touch of romance. Finished quickly once the "who done it" revealed.

Not my usual genre.
Writing style easy to get into.
Plenty of "what happens next?"
Very well planned, outlined, & executed.
Found myself frustrated at the hospital system that didn't help a new mother bond with her child. I hope that has changed these days. Not perfect in NZ either, but definitely better than what Jane experienced! We get encouraged to do skin-on-skin & get a little more help getting started with breastfeeding. I felt sorry for Jane that she felt like such a failure, when it was the "system", the support networks, that let her down, not her letting down her baby.
Enjoyable read, on the whole.