Blog Tour Stop: Return to Arèthane by Kelly Riad- Review

  Kelly Riad is from Texas where she lived with her husband and a house overrun by pets. She now lives in the San Francisco Bay area and is determined to bring the y'all to the West Coast.  While she published her first book - a handmade pop-up titled "The Lost Puppy" - in the fifth grade to much acclaim by the first graders, she only recently picked the craft back up. "Return to Arèthane" is her second published novel.

This book starts out with the main character, Emily at a restaurant with her embarrassing, drunk of a mother. As they are leaving, her mother bumps into someone that looks about Emily's age and starts flirting at him. This makes Emily all the more embarrassed, and she gets her mother home as soon as she can. We they get home, her mother tries to drink more and when Emily tries to stop her, her mother breaks the glass with Emily's hand. Emily calls her friend Dafne and her grandfather, and Jabari, the grandfather, sews up her hand...

The next day, at school, Dafne (who is Emily's bff) doesn't answer any other her texts, so Emily is starting to fell like something happened. When Dafne walks into the auditorium, Emily sees someone following her and she asks her other friend, Shelley about the girl. That's when she learns that Dafne's brother and sister are now at the school. When Dafne's brother, Jarrad, walks in, Emily immediately recognizes him as the boy from the restaurant  that her mother flirted at.

Then, Emily discovers something about Dafne's family that changes everything for Emily.

So, I gave this book a five, because I really liked it. The plot was different, and the wording didn't seem as stiff as some of the stuff I came across.