This book is another 2014-2015 Gateway Nominee, and another one about a
young Russian (actually Moldovian) girl. Hannah's parents were killed in a terrorist
bombing and her favorite uncle has disappeared. She lives with her
"babushka" but they are very poor and seventeen year old Hannah
cannot continue school. When she is offered the chance to move to Los Angeles
to be a nanny, she takes it. But things are difficult from the start. She is
issued fake documents, her money is stolen from her, and the family treats her
like a slave. She works 16 hour days, is not allowed to leave the house, lives
in the garage and the wife is insanely jealous of her youthful looks. Things go
from bad to worse until Hannah ends up in the hospital, badly beaten by the
wife. Only then is she rescued and given a chance at a new life.
This book was okay. I don't feel the characters were well developed. Kudos
to Kim Pucell, though, She is donating 20% of sales from this book to organizations
that help trafficking victims. She says that 14,500 to 17,500 people are
trafficked into the United States every year and at least half of them are
children and teens.
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