Author: Cathy Glass
Publisher:Harper Element
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5*****Stars
Book Description:
Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before Max has moved in. Cathy and her family are shocked when they first meet Max. But his social worker isn’t the only one in denial; his whole family are too.
My Thoughts:
This book was a bit different than any I have read in the past. This author has written about her own life and experiences as a foster parent.
At times it was cute. At times I smiled but there was a lot of times when I had to put the book down, stop reading for a bit.
Being a mother myself it was very easy to relate to the events and get emotionally vested in the story.
While I enjoyed learning what a foster parent, temporary child care provided does and must go through it will be awhile before I read the other book I bought by her.
She is a good author and I picked her book because it was so different from what I normally read and I was not disappointed. It pulled at my heart strings most definitely.
People who take on the role as a child care giver, temporary or permanent full time parent are strong people who make themselves vulnerable to help give another child the care they need. My hat is off to them.
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