BKFUNNEL/ Francesca's Voice (The MAKING OF A FAMILY SERIES #1) BY NOVA FORNELL

   AMAZON

Courage is being willing to let go of everything, hoping to piece their family back together in the end… 

Francesca, Jenny and Phillip have only each other, but after losing the girls’ mother in a car accident ten years earlier, everything fell apart. Through it all, Francesca's ballet has been the only stable thing she's known, giving her a voice and enough self-confidence to deal with her grieving and verbally abusive dad.

And now, as the love between the girls and their dad has long been forgotten, nineteen-year-old Francesca is desperate to move out and ready to sacrifice everything to take her twelve-year-old sister, Jenny, with her. However, Phillip will do whatever it takes to stop this from happening.

But when Francesca comes face to face with a situation, and a person, she cannot ignore, she realizes that not everything is so easy to give up after all. As the family's differences push them even further apart, will they be able to recognize that, deep down, they all want the same before it’s too late?

Francesca's Voice is the first novel in a series of touching family dramas. If you like complex characters, raw emotions, and intricately woven plots, then you’ll love Nova Fornell’s tear-jerking tale.

5 Star/MY REVIEW- TITLED:   Are Francesca, and Jenny ever gonna catch a break?

It was so cute that Francesca called her 11 year old sister Jellybean.  There were a couple of other nicknames but that one was my favorite one !  Jenny was a gem, fearful smart mouth, clever little girl who knew what she wanted. Francesca's best friend was Margaret, who suddenly unintentionally gives her a Great idea !  It leads to a couple of her other college friends to come on board with her on it !  And she makes an unexpected, good connection with a man doing a workshop at her very college. How to be successful in business, One of my favorite things about Francesca's experiences of when she went to the ballet with her mother.  She watched and realized although she was always to sit still, to be silent,  she could talk with her body therefore no longer being totally silent.  Like the dancers, she could talk with her body ! And she did ! This story was so well written, not only in emotions but also in descriptions of feelings and copying mechanisms.

Adrian is the next door neighbor kid that's know her for years and in so in love with her. He desperately wants out of the friendship zone. It's so sad because Adrian is such a great guy !

Phillip is the worst kind of bully and it becomes clear by Chapter 3, that the "girls" hate him and don't want anything to do with him.   I hate bullies so I was all "Team Girls "!!! Later, some information about Phillip and the orphanage comes out. It softened me a little bit.

It all comes down to some hard decisions with some great unexpected results !!!  For everyone !