adoption – Page 3 – Cannonball Read 17

‘From the first moment he’d seen her picture in the file they’d been given, he’d been curious about this woman.’

Securing Piper by Susan Stoker

July 12, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

After the orphanage that Piper was visiting is attacked by rebel forces, she barely escapes with her life – and three orphans. Determined to adopt the girls, she marries one of her rescuers, Ace. But it’s not all smooth sailing from there… I remember sitting up and taking notice when I first read the synopsis of this book, because it sounded exactly up my alley. A marriage-of-convenience! Adopted children! Peril in foreign climes! And as usual Stoker delivered in spades. The author unabashedly pulls on […]

Intelligence not so artificial

Made in Korea by Jeremy Holt

July 7, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

You think you are getting one story and it turns around to become another when reading Made in Korea. Yet it is still the first story! Jeremy Holt (a nonbinary author) has created a commentary on humanity, life, children, privilege, sexuality, gender and more all bottled up, ready to explode off the page. The words are complimented and enhanced by the art of George Schall. Even when there is light used, the darker overtones come into play. Set in the not too far future, we […]

Superhero 101

Naomi Season One (TV Tie-In by Brian Michael Bendis

June 13, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am glad I was not the only one who was not completely taken with this graphic novel. The Goodreads reviews were averaging two and three for scores. Naomi Season One has almost nothing original to it. It was created to have representation of a person of color as the main character. It is filled with clichés, and steals Superman’s origin story (alien from another world, left on Earth). Naomi even learns of her alien heritage in a cave. Her white adoptive parents are typical, […]

Love, Love me do

Love Rules: A Family’s True Story of Adoption and Unconditional Love by Andrea Melvin

June 10, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Love Rules: A Family’s True Story of Adoption and Unconditional Love is based on the true story of a young boy who found his forever home. At times, Andrea Melvin’s (and Dave Eaton and Michael Clark) story is a little bumpy. Or, for me, it was not always smooth. Sometimes I felt I had missed something in the text, or something was missing altogether. However, the main message of love is loud and clear. And the message of family, friendship, and forever flies off the […]

Hop in, we’re going for a read

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

May 18, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

After finishing Far from the Tree, I told myself, “Well, that was a ride.” But was it a good or bad one? Yes. There were things I loved, and things I hated. Sometimes I thought the characters were amazing, sometimes horrible (really horrible, and not necessarily where you might think that yourself). They were real and they were stereotypes. They are good and they are bad. In other words, human. Robin Benway created a story of three biologically siblings (boy, girl, girl). And there are […]

Took the subway, changed his life

Our Subway Baby by Peter Mercurio

March 12, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Our Subway Baby is an adorable story! Peter Mercurio tells the story how he and his partner literally found and adopted a baby and within months became parents. One day, Mercurio’s partner, Danny, was in the subway and noticed what looked like a doll wrapped up in a corner. And when he got closer, he noticed that it was not a doll but a baby. The police, foster care and a one sympathetic judge later, a baby makes a Papa Pete and Daddy Danny. That […]

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