Just a Regular Boy
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Reviewed by Helen
This is the second book that I have read by this author and another five star read for me, I love the way the author brings to life her characters and the caring she shows with them, this is a heart-wrenching story but also heart-warming.
When five year old Remy Blake, who lost his mother eighteen months ago is taken to live in the wilderness with his father, his life would turn upside down when his father Roy Blake is determined to show his son about living a survivalist life, they need to hunt and fish for their food life is very strange and hard for Remy, he has no idea how long they have been living there he doesn’t even remember his age and then one day when Roy does not return to the cabin, Remy just knows he is on his own, Remy has no idea how long he was on his own but now he is starving, thirsty and scared and wanders into a small town.
Anne is a loving woman who fosters children her and her husband have two adopted children that they had fostered and when she hears about the wild boy living it the woods she is determined to find him and take him in, this child needs someone to love and care for him.
He is badly injured and just about feral and mute by the time Anne gets to him but there is a bond forming between them from their first meeting and over time Anne and her family learn a lot about young Remy and what happened to him but Remy also helps them learn more about themselves, he is one very special regular boy.
This is a story that I would highly recommend broke my heart and put it back together.
My thanks to Negalley and the publisher for my copy
When five year old Remy Blake, who lost his mother eighteen months ago is taken to live in the wilderness with his father, his life would turn upside down when his father Roy Blake is determined to show his son about living a survivalist life, they need to hunt and fish for their food life is very strange and hard for Remy, he has no idea how long they have been living there he doesn’t even remember his age and then one day when Roy does not return to the cabin, Remy just knows he is on his own, Remy has no idea how long he was on his own but now he is starving, thirsty and scared and wanders into a small town.
Anne is a loving woman who fosters children her and her husband have two adopted children that they had fostered and when she hears about the wild boy living it the woods she is determined to find him and take him in, this child needs someone to love and care for him.
He is badly injured and just about feral and mute by the time Anne gets to him but there is a bond forming between them from their first meeting and over time Anne and her family learn a lot about young Remy and what happened to him but Remy also helps them learn more about themselves, he is one very special regular boy.
This is a story that I would highly recommend broke my heart and put it back together.
My thanks to Negalley and the publisher for my copy
5 stars
May 2, 2023 by Lake Union Publishing
