"A Northern Light" Jennifer Donnelly

This book is a little different from what I usually read. This is more a life story of choice and consequence. A young girl's struggle to decide whether to choose herself or choose her family and loose herself. It was very well written and I felt like I was connected to the characters and their emotions throughout the entire book. I also found myself talking to sixteen year old Mattie telling her what I believed she should do and trying to encourage her at times. It was a new experience for me to want something that strongly for a book character.

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