A review by sammah
Abby's Book by Ann M. Martin, Jeanne Betancourt
3.0
This was perhaps my favorite Portrait Collection Book when I was a kid. I think because we hadn't spent 100+ books reading about Abby, so she felt new and different somehow. In retrospect parts of this book were just rehashed from other BSC books. Some of the identical twin stuff seemed gleaned right out of Mallory and the Trouble with Twins, to be perfectly honest. Ah, well.
The chapter about her father's death was actually super depressing. It did make me feel for her as a character, and for her poor mom. It was interesting at least to read about how they all fell apart, but ultimately worked to become a new kind of family.
Then the last bit was just a rehash of Kristy and the Dirty Diapers but from Abby's POV. Welcome to the BSC, ya poor sod.
The chapter about her father's death was actually super depressing. It did make me feel for her as a character, and for her poor mom. It was interesting at least to read about how they all fell apart, but ultimately worked to become a new kind of family.
Then the last bit was just a rehash of Kristy and the Dirty Diapers but from Abby's POV. Welcome to the BSC, ya poor sod.