Review: Before We Were Yours

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When I read that this book was inspired by a true children's home, I was scared to read it. I can't imagine someone hurting a child and in this time period, they got away with it........

Many children are taken from their homes and put into the Tennesse Children's Home. These children are mistreated, malnourished and abused; there is simply no one to be an advocate for them, not even the police. The children are stripped of every life they knew including their very name.

The "good" children are dressed up and paraded around wealthy people who fall in love with the children to fulfill a longing they have, then they are fleeced over and over and threatened to have "their" newly adopted children taken away from them. The "misbehaving" children are punished, put in a closet and some just vanished (when I read up on the home it was said probably murdered).

This book not only shows you the lives of the children but a glimpse into the families the children were stolen from and the sorrow they feel at the loss of their family.

Don't think that this book is not worthy of your time, because it very much is worthy of your reading minutes. Not all the bad guys win....fast forward to the future.

Avery is the daughter of a famous senator. She is being groomed to take his seat one day. She is engaged to a man that would be good for her image and for her family's standings. One day she sees her grandmother Judy in a photograph that she doesn't recognize...she derails all of her plans and focuses on finding out the story of this photograph. The photograph leads back to the children's home but will give you some good feelings too.

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