Welcome Fellow Readers!
I Just finished the book, The Book of Essie
by Meghan Maclean Wier.
Esther Ann Hicks–Essie–is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She’s grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family’s fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie’s mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she arranges an emergency meeting with the show’s producers: Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Do they pass the child off as Celia’s? Or do they try to arrange a marriage–and a ratings-blockbuster wedding?
Meanwhile, Essie is quietly pairing herself up with Roarke Richards, a senior at her school with a secret of his own to protect and whose family is on it’s wit’s end financially. The newly formed couple attempt to sell their fabricated love story to the media–through exclusive interviews with an infamously conservative reporter named Liberty Bell.
I loved this book, though the subject matter that comes to light is tough to read at times. My favorite characters are Essie an Roarke, and the relationship that grows between the two. It’s a love that’s different from what most of us expect between two people, but it is love nonetheless. This book is about love, bravery, being the person for yourself when others have failed you and trust…and much more.
I give this book 4.5 stars out of 5.