Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig was sure of many things going into her last year of high school. For one, she wasn’t going to stress over the senior project all her peers were dreading—she’d just use the same find-your-roots genealogy idea that her older sister used for hers. Secondly, she’d put all that time spent not worrying about the project toward getting reacquainted with former best friend and longtime crush Kodiak Jones who, conveniently, gets assigned as Cordelia’s partner.
All she has to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results and breeze through the rest of senior year. Done, done and done.
But when Cordelia’s GeneQuest results reveal that her father is not the man she thought he was but a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, Cordelia realizes she isn’t sure of anything anymore—not the mother who lied, the life she was born into or the girl staring back at her in the mirror.
If your life began with a lie, how can you ever be sure of what’s true?
REVIEW: Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins for the advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I love the concept of this book from the get-go. With all the popularity of DNA kits and geneology there was bound to be a story like this out there. Doing my own kit was one of the coolest experiences for me, learning where I came from opened a whole new world for me! This was an inspiring story, told in verse, emails, and text messages, of self-discovery and learning that your blood doesn't always determine who you are and blood does not always equal family. This was a five star read for me and one that I think anyone could read and feel connected to in some way.
Publication Date: October 13, 2020