Rosie Girl - Lili Tiouririne

WARNING SPOILERS 
I have just finished reading Rosie Girl by Julie Shepard published in 2017. It tells the story of a seventeen year old girl named Rosie who has a rather complicated life. Her mom died when she was very young and her dad married an abusive careless stepmom. Rosie isn’t happy growing up but at least she has her dad and the comfort of her childhood home but all that changes when her dad passed away and her stepmom decided to move. Before her dad passed away he told Rosie to find a box that would hold the truth and answers about her birth mom. The only problem was the box was in the attic of her old house. Luckily for Rosie her stepmom is dating an equally careless guy so it is really easy for her to sneak out along with her best friend Moly.    
Moly is quite the troublemaker, her home life isn’t the best situation around either. She’s always telling Rosie that as soon as she turns 18 she is out of here. Moly is the kind of girl who will do anything to get what she wants even if it means breaking a few rules. To people on the outside, she seems like a careless jerk who doesn’t care about anything. In reality, she will do anything to protect Rosie and the two have a very strong bond. 
When Rosie is able to get her hands on the box, she finds the very shocking truth, her mother is still alive. Because Rosie can’t go anywhere for help she decided to hire a private investigator. She and Mary both save up money so they can find her mom, however this leads to a lot of twisted faits and dangerous waters. Rumors start to spread around school about how crazy the two girls are and Rosie's old boyfriend comes back to town, only to cause more trouble in the hunt for her mom. Along the journey Mary and Rosie will fall into life changing situations and new found love. 

Overall, the plot of the book was really interesting but the book itself is sort of slow. Nothing really happens in the first half of the book other than the process of getting money to hire the investigator. And when Rosie finds the box, she just finds it and moves on, there's nothing really leading to the finding of the box to make it interesting. I will say however, once you get past the first half of the book it is quite the adventure. I would rate this book a 7/10.

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