Review: The unwelcomed child

 The Unwelcomed Child
 V. C Andrews


One of the more recent stand alone books, The Unwelcomed Child follows Elle Edwards as she describes her life living with her grandparents. The "unwelcomed" part comes from being a product of rape, and her grandparents forced Elle's mother to have the baby anyways (it being against their religion to do anything else with the child).

We follow Elle through a summer of self-leaning, with her grandmother's rigorous chores, strict religious teachings, and seclusion.  Unable to leave the house on her own, as she is home-schooled and does not drive yet, Elle is quite lonely.

However,

Elle ventures out into her backyard and down to the lake one day to draw and she meets her neighbours. A brother and sister, Mason and Claudine, who are visiting their summer house.  When they learn about Elle and her life, they try to show her there is more to the world than the soul-less existence she has been made to believe. Knowing her grandparents would disapprove, she hides her new friends from them, but life decides to call it's own shots.


A decent story line, but could have easily been stretched over a few books. Very heavy with inner dialogue/thoughts (and often the same ones repeated every chapter as Elle questions if she carries the sins of her mother with her) and not a lot of drama - especially when Elle's mother visits, and she finds out about her biological father - after all, what's VC Andrews without parental drama? - but everything was wrapped up in a nice little bow by the end of the book. Slightly disappointing, but not the worst story us fans have read.  I'd probably give it 3 stars, but that's being generous. Maybe 2.5?

Tell me what you thought of it !


 

anyone else excited summer is done-zo?

hello, lovelies ! 

what a month. I am so thankful August is over. Peace out, yo. Nothing bad happened, it was just stressful from lack of work and the work I did have .. well, payment got sent to the wrong address so life has been tiiight. Sigh. 

The joys of being self employed, right? 

Gave me lots of time to read, so lets get to it! 

It took a while for me to get a grip on my shelves and what I was going to read this month so a lot of kindle reading happened 

- Deliverer (amazing! 10/10 recommend) 

- Worth Billions

- Hers to take 

- Black 

- Cruz 

- Lost in me 

- Taken 

- Forbidden sister 

- A girl like that (ARC for "We Can(ada) Read 2018") 

- Kincaid 

- Retribution of Mara Dyer 

- Roxy's Story 

- to all the boys I've loved before 

- Hush Hush 

- Cresendo 

- Silence 

which puts me at 127/200 ! whohoo. Slow but steady. I'm pretty sure I'll make my goal since my fall schedule is looking empty ... *tumbleweed flies by* 

 I'm feeling ambitious with this one. I really want to start reading more before bed but lately I've been so tired ... so many doggy walks lately since i can't just toss him out into a backyard to do his thang. which is fine, he's a lot calmer these days haha 

- the colour purple 

- unwanted child 

- lost boy (preptober prep) 

- finale 

- 12 years a slave (which i have started and its so dry! going to be difficult) 

- raven king 

- the wedding date 

- internet famous

- obsidio 

- elanor and park 

- leia 

Plus I have 3 scheduled for Summer's eve reads and whatever catches my interest off my kindle. like always ;) and 2 ARCs from Netgalley to get to. so it should be a good month, but I am hopeful work picks up  

Another crazy month. At least the move is over with ... all settled in nicely. Everything is unpacked that needs to be, and I get a new bed frame next week so the bedroom can be complete (and my back pain can hopefully go away) which should also stop the dog from thinking it's a bed for him - I don't mind cuddling with him, but he sheds so much that I have to change sheets more often and doing laundry in an apartment is annoying :p 

Work has been SO SLOW. and this last week of August I think I did more work than I did the rest of the month combined. So I'm exhausted and stressed out. The doggy got mad at me because I wasn't home much so he went to visit the ex for a few days to have a playdate with the other pups and at least get proper walks/feeding times.  Man, I miss him. The apartment is so lonely now right ...  I get him back on the weekend when things calm down and I cannot wait! 

Other than that, everything else is the same. My life is pretty boring haha I'm excited for Fall because work will pick up and hopefully this humidity goes away (not that i mind the heat, especially in canada because VERY SOON it's going to be all covered in white nonsense that i detest. sigh.) 

October/November means it's NaNo season again! Yay! I'm still working on edits from my WIP from last year (this summer got away from me but I have a writing area set up on my dining room table which is helpful) but I feel a bit stuck with it so changing direction to my Captain Hook retelling is going to be fun. I got asked the other day if I wanted to be a writer ... which I thought was a weird question. I am a writer. Been writing since I was 12. I just don't care about being published. They didn't know how to take that lol 

My mom got us tickets to go see a local production of Peter Pan in Mississauga in October so whoohoo! She knows me so well haha. 

I guess that's it for this month! As always, follow me on twitter and insta to keep up with the puppy and the books @ inafieldofbooks 

A  <3