I really liked Sonya Sones, but this book didn't do it for me. I kept waiting for something in this book to connect, either the main character or her story or even her dog, but none of it did. (Well okay, I kind of cared about the dog.)

Molly meets a homeless girl and decides to get her home by Christmas. She also meets a cute boy and dates him. And she has anxiety over her brother not being around anymore. That's kind of the whole story and it doesn't really do much with that. It's definitely geared toward younger YA readers, as most of Sones books are, but I didn't find it as relatable or as real. It was just kind of dull.

It also did the very annoying thing where the main character has a secret she's constantly talking about but won't tell the reader. I get that there will always be revelations later in stories, but I don't want my face rubbed in all the things I don't know yet. Especially when it's so obvious what happened. It made me sigh every time Molly brought up "that thing that happened and I'm not ready to talk about yet" which felt like every four pages. Either tell me or don't talk about it.

Also, she kept interchangeably calling the dog a service dog and an emotional support animal, and I'm pretty sure there's a big difference between the two, both in their training and how they're treated under the law.

I dunno. This is the kind of book that I'm honestly never going to think about again. It wasn't bad, but it was definitely the kind of story where you had to connect to the main character and I didn't at all.