The Family Way~Book Review

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Hello hello peepity peeps! I hope you had a great Easter, and ate lots and lots of chocolate! Yay! Today we have a nice book review of The Family Way by Laura Best!

Pages: 218

Stars: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

Review:

The Family Way by Laura Best is kinda dark, but also educational. It’s historical fiction, and it tells about the Ideal Maternity Homes that used to exist in Nova Scotia. The Ideal Maternity homes were a place where unwed mothers or teen moms could go to have their babies, and leave the baby at the home for someone to adopt.

Babies that didn’t get adopted were killed, and buried/disposed of in little coffins known as butterboxes. And thats were it gets DARK. Mwahahaha. I’m pretty sure this book was designed to make the reader cry, because… y’know, dying babies. The unfortunate thing is that its based on true events. ✨Abortion✨ but ✨old school✨.


The book stars 11year old Tulia May, and she is shocked to find her sister, Becky, in the Maternity Home as a patient. Tulia knows what this means, and she also knows what happens to the babies that are not wanted for adoption. A deal is made, if Becky’s baby is a boy, the boy will be adopted by a couple who could use the extra help on their farm, but if Becky’s baby is a girl? well… ✨unalive✨ 👶🏼🔫 Tulia is now challenged with saving her sister’s baby weather it be a boy or a girl.

On THAT cheerful note, I liked this book because it had dark truths, a cool female lead, and I also learned something new! I hope you check out The Family Way by Laura Best, because you’re in for a real roller coaster of emotions! Have a nice rest of your day, thats an order!

BYEEEEEEEE! ✌🏽

~Ariela🤍

13 thoughts on “The Family Way~Book Review”

    1. Yesss, you must learn about what NOT to do in the future. Or… wait… abortion is still a thing 😢

  3. That’s a bit different to the books that you normally review. I have heard about similar kinds of horrors that happened in Ireland in the past (and in the not so distant past) in fact I’m sure that they are almost certainly still going on in some countries and cultures even today. It’s good that someone has fictionalised something like this. For the sake of many nameless victims, the story needs to be told however emotive it may be.

    1. Yes, I agree that the stories should not be forgotten. We have to remember that past, no matter how terrible it might be <3

  4. Hesitant to “Like” this as the current condition of the USA has some Representatives proposing making abortion a law of the land nationally, it the Supremes overturn Roe vs. Wade, the deceptive injection of activist judges into a debate that should have been left to the states. But now some states are even proposing “post-birth abortions” up to 28 days after a LIVE BIRTH!! That is simply murder, as represented in the Maternity Homes in Canada a century ago. So sad when God’s most God-like gift of producing life is twisted for personal convenience.
    ❤️&🙏, c.a.

    1. It truly is sad, no baby deserves to die. This book is really an eye opener for anyone who is pro-abortion.

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