The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers.

Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it. Yet despite everyone’s overwhelming generosity and acceptance, Alida knows she is still a very different kind of girl. Her dreams bear that out. They’re vivid, unsettling, and threatening. Alida fears that they’re also warnings. And that it’s the Fairchilds who may need rescue from a bad, bad world.

Alida will do anything to help those she now holds nearest and dearest. Empowered with a purpose to vanquish evil, she will not fail her family.

My Thoughts:

When Franklin and Loretta meet Alida they know they need to do something for her. Alida gets to know the two well and grows up with their children but knows she is completely different from them becuase of her background. See Alida is different and was the star attraction for a museum of oddities that travelled the world. There is a lot going on for Alida and she does not understand everything and when something bad happens has she put this loving families lives at risk. I found it an odd and thought provoking read, it deals with sacrifices and being a family unit. There is spiritual love in the book too, it was a story that I wasn’t sure if I would like or not and I still not sure how I feel about it.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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