BOOK REVIEW

"Compartiendo a Susan" or "Sharing Susan" by Eve Bunting.

"The book is about a girl named Susan. She percieves that there is something wrong at home. However, neither she or her best friend Clemmie, can not identify what it is. Not even Susan's craziest assumptions can prepare her for the unbelievable secret that her parents have to reveal now. Secret that changes their lives forever. What they did not think, was that this problem could be something else, very different from what they thought.

The main problem is that Susan was switched with Marlene when they were born. Marlene passed away because she had an accident and their parents noticed it because they could not donate blood to her. The twelve-year-old Susan is shocked to find that she was switched with another baby in the hospital and her parents who raised her have to give her to her biological parents. The book shows how she goes through sadness and confusion after the meeting with the Stobbels, but at the end, she accept them.

I think this book shows the perspective of a difficult situation from a child's view and I personally liked it when I was younger. Currently, I don't enjoy it anymore. The book is too short, and Susan's situation happened too fast and It was handled far from reality. In addition, the end is too rough. It does not show how the relationship between her true parents and her evolves. Eve Bunting could have written a longer book with a deeper story.

However, as I said before, I enjoyed it when I was a child, so maybe children will like it because it is simple and entertaining.