Book Review

Basic Details:

Book Title: Run, Amy, Run!

Subtitle:

Author: Elizabeth Grimes Brown

Genre: Young Adult

Part of a series? No

Order in series:

Best read after earlier books in series?

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25564798-run-amy-run

Overall score:

I scored this book 4/5

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Short Summary of the book:

This book tells the harrowing tale of a young abused girl. When her mother sinks into a deep postnatal depression and Amy is left alone at home with her abuser, she has no other choice than to run. While she attempts to find her father in London, she becomes one of the many homeless teenagers and falls into the hands of Clive. Further abuse follows. But will she be able to turn her life around with the help of a young mother?

What I liked about the book:

The genuine feeling this could happen to a young girl like Amy.

What I didn’t like about the book:

The feeling this may happen to so many of the street children.

My favourite bits in the book:

How Amy finds a good friend who wants to help her but she also helps him.

My least favourite bits in the book:

Difficult to say. There was one bit that feels like actual fiction. No disturbance of a burial site like the one mentioned in the book.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the second book I’ve read by this author and I enjoyed this one too.

What books could this be compared to and why?

It’s difficult to know what book to compare this to. The book made me wonder if the author had personal experience of the subject due to the authentic feel to the book.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

Children No

Young Adult Yes

Adult Yes

If you like your books dark and action-packed, this book may be the book for you. However, if you have a history of abuse, this book may bring flashbacks to your past.

I’m certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

Following a serious incident at her home, fourteen year-old, privately educated Amy Harrington, finds herself fleeing the privilaged life for an unknown, dangerous future on the streets of London.

Meetings with various characters help teach her to survive street life. Some are genuine encounters, people who want to help, while others see her as the vulnerable, young victim she is.

Learning to beg and steal are just some of the new challengers; however, she is to experience much worse that sneaking a carton of milk to stem the hunger pangs, or rattling a cup at a tube station; because when she thinks she has sunk to the bottom, Amy is yet to find herself about to face the abyss.

While enduring the worst horrors of her young life, can an unusual offer from a stranger set her back on recovery?

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