Author: Monica Wood
Length: 336 pages
The One-in-a-Million Boy
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Description
“The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don’t they teach you anything at school?
So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who’s been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she’s confessing secrets she has kept hidden for decades.
One Saturday, the boy doesn’t show up. Ona starts to think he’s not so special after all, but then his father arrives on her doorstep, determined to finish his son’s good deed. The boy’s mother is not so far behind. Ona is set to discover that the world can surprise us at any age, and that sometimes sharing a loss is the only way to find ourselves again.”
Janet Dore –
“No one will love you more than they love them selves.”
This is the story of the impact of the short life of an autistic teenage boy on his parents and an elderly woman he befriended through a Boy Scouts volunteer program.
For some mysterious reason, I didn’t connect with this book as much as others…surprising being that I’m both a mama and a mush. It was a Book Bub deal (for my Kindle) that I bought solely based on the good reviews…just goes to show you that, in the end, one shouldn’t put too much weight on reviews as books are a very personal thing!
The writing was actually quite good. For me, the story just lacked real emotional depth and cohesiveness, so I was never able to deeply connect with it or any of the characters.
I’m not sorry I read it, but give me a few months and I probably won’t remember it!