Fourteen year old Kirby is an ordinary girl who comes home one day to find her Mum pale with news that Kirby didn't expect to hear; They were moving to Wellington, but the worst was still to come. On the car drive down to Wellington, her Mum tells her she's going to Africa to help with a refuggee programme and Kirby was to live with her brother, Uncle Caleb, and his family: Aunt Naomi, Daniel,Rachel and Rebecca, Abraham, Luke and Maggie. They all believed in The Children of the Faith. Kirby who's been a free-willed girl was forced to live under the Faith's rules.
Forced to change her name to Esther, to give up her clothes and style, forced to lose her choice in friends, she was beginning to lose her true self and the spirit she had, as she carried each task that was required of her by the Faith. She was becoming Esther and kirby was starting to die. Kirby's only hope was now at school through the school counsellor, Ms Fletcher who Kirby saw out of Uncle Caleb's radar. Kirby then starts to begins to question her Mum's past. Why did her Mum leave The Children of the Faith? Why hadn't her Mum contacted her yet? Who was Miriam? Each misdoing in finding and figuring out the answers to these questikons left her in loneliness and silence in the discipline room where it all caved down on her and became a nightmare. The biggest question was would she be able to get out of the Faith and Uncle's custody in time?
This story has an amazing, kind of unexpected ending. The book is captivating, sort of disturbing but gets your heart racing. Fleur Beale did a good job in displaying Kirby's spirit throughout most of the book. I enjoyed the way Beale showed Kirby's personality and relationship's with the other characters, the descriptions of what Kirby was feeling was well brought out and touching. Another thing I liked about the book was that it based in New Zealand, making the story a lot more realistic but the story did not reflect much about or on New zealand, it just used the names and locations. Overall I rate thhis book nine out of ten and recommend it to be read by mature readers. This book made me apprecaite my life much more than I did.
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