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aroaessidhe · 9 months

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2023 reads

Into The Bright Open

younger-YA secret garden retelling

follows a privileged but emotionally neglected girl who’s sent to live with the uncle she’s never met in rural Ontario after her parents die

she becomes friends with the Indigenous housekeepers and locals, and her younger cousin - who’s kept in the attic because of her health by an abusive stepmother

#Into The Bright Open #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #sapphic books #I enjoyed this! it’s quite..narratively simple I guess. but there’s some interesting things for sure #i am not intimately familiar with the secret garden and there’s def a bunch of reviews that r like. this is nothing like that!!!!11!!1 #so ymmv #but as far as a story about an unlikable girl getting freedom from so called society and friends for the first time #and being able to find her true self…. yknow i thought it was quite good #to listen to the audiobook anyway #also i only noticed the beadwork on the cover afterwards that's kinda cool

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