Just Call My Name
Sam and Riddle live their life with what they’re given, they don’t get caught up anything, and they just go with the punches that life brings them. They’re brothers; they’ve lived an eventful life, a life most of us hope we never have to see. Their father, Clarence packed them up when they were 7 and 2 leaving their mother behind, living a life on the run, rummaging for food and caring for each other. It’s been ten years, their father is now behind bars in a state prison and the boys are being acclimated to the world again. The boys haven’t been in school for ten years and that has its own set of problems socially and academically. Adding Sam and Riddle as new members to Emily’s family, bring about a whole set of concerns to deal with. Emily’s brother Jared is not too happy with the situation, he doesn’t like to share and their personalities are different. Jared tries so hard to please others and tries to fit whereas Riddle just is himself and he doesn’t try to be anything he’s not. The author writes with a straightforward delivery and when compiled with the history of the main characters, I admired this writing and thought it spoke volumes for the situation at hand. There’s a relationship with Emily and Sam, it’s a caring and slow relationship. For it needed to be, with Sam being “secluded” with his father for ten years, things needed to go slow. Emily brings him onboard with her friends and soon there is handful of characters that the two of them hang out with. Sam and Emily both need to be understanding as their world gets complicated and intense. Clarence doesn’t plan on staying in prison either, there’s a reason his boys are not with him and he scheming to get free to check on his rotten boys.
I received a complimentary e-book from NetGalley and Little,Brown Books for Young Readers in exchange for my honest review. Thank you.
