I choose to receive the book Break This House by Candice Iloh for free because i loved how down to earth the characters sounded. Minah and her dad live in Brooklyn,NY. i live in NY state and have been there before and experienced some of the things she described. Her neighborhood was like living in its own Caribbean bubble, the bodegas, the smells, the people: all of that. But that might be as exciting as the book gets. i was expecting something different, i guess, in regards to her mother dying of an overdose and not cancer. i expected to really find out why Minah and her dad left her twin in Obsidian Michigan to live with her NANA and that wasn't really made clear. i love how her mom Sandra was celebrated but and i wanted to dive deeper into why Minah felt the way she did about her mom. Had it not been for the addition of the other characters, her cousins and twin sister, Nana and the aunties, the book would have felt kinda flat. i appreciate that the book was not a big book. it was a decent read, but not a page turner.