About a quarter of the way into this story I didn't know if I could continue. I'm 25 weeks pregnant with my second son and I fell into a sobbing well of sorrow thinking how tragic Leon's situation is, and yet how many Leons in the world there are.... and how no child should experience what he does. But I continued because that was a miniscule ask compared to what such kids would have to face. Needless to say his plight and his love for his mother and brother pulled at all my heartstrings and made me go check on my sleeping three-year-old more times than I usually do at night. There were times when I really did want a bit more depth to all of the characters but maybe this was deliberately not the case because the story is told from Leon's perspective, but as hard as I think some of the conversations could be, I am adding this book to stories I will read to my sons when they're older... and I have less hormones flowing through my body.