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🏡BOOK REVIEW🏡

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🥰Thank you so much to @bookmarked for the ARC!

📖Title: The Girls We Sent Away
✍️Author: Megan Church
📅Pub date: March 5, 2024
📚Genre: Historical fiction

🏡When I finished this story and was fighting back tears!

😭 I really felt connected to Lorraine, the main character.

🏡When Lorraine becomes pregnant in high school, her parents will stop at nothing to make sure their name and reputation are not blemished by their daughter. Set during the “baby scoop era” in the 1960’s, this book opened my eyes to the horrible ways young girls and women were treated and the subsequent research I did broke my heart.

🏡This story was told with such heart and I really felt for Lorraine and as though I were walking her journey with her.

🏡I did wish for a little more at the end, but still think it was done well! I also think a lot of people will think this is a thriller/mystery based on the cover and title, so I want to be clear it’s HISTORICAL FICTION 😂

🏡If you enjoyed ONLY THE BEAUTIFUL by Susan Meissner or THE FOUNDLING by Ann Leary, you may enjoy this one!

❓Do you think you can usually guess the genre by the book cover alone? Have you ever been mislead by a cover?