My Name Is Venus Black, (Hardcover)

from Bonnie.Franks

I won an arc of this book on Librarything.com as well as being provided an ebook by NetGalley. I enjoyed this book on many levels, one of them being the good writing which always pulls me in. The characters, likeable or not, were real. They were the type of real people you might run into on a day...

from bnbookgirl

Thoroughly enjoyable story about a young woman who changes her identity to get along in life. Suddenly she is drawn back into her old life and it is there she finds the redemption she has been searching for all along. So many wonderful characters in this story. I was so overjoyed with Piper and T...

from MsNick

Venus is a precocious 13-year-old who helps her dysfunctional mother and abusive step-father raise her younger autistic brother. When Venus is sentenced to 5.5 years in juvenile corrections for the crime she commits, she worries more for her sibling than for herself. The reader follows Venus as s...

from debristow

I received this book as part of the Early Reviewers program. This is the story of Venus Black- sent to prison for murdering her mother's boyfriend as a young teenager, Inez- Venus' mother who didn't believe Venus' claims that her boyfriend was spying on Venus through a peephole to her bedroom, an...

from DianaCoats

I really loved the author's explanation of the title, meaning how the key protagonist got her name. The main character I found very believable in her emotional reactions to quite severe situations. There were deep family scars from an incident that unfolds over time and although you suspect what ...