Rather than another in a long line of biographies about a criminal, No Way Home is instead a look at how the lives of those around said criminal are affected by their choices and actions. So it was an interesting twist on this type of tale. However, it felt meandering and I kept waiting for Wetherall to tell us what her dad actually did...which she didn't until at least halfway through the book. It also would've been interesting to hear what her mom, sister and brother thought/felt about things.

This is a fascinating memoir! The narrative drug a little in spots, but overall I enjoyed this true story of growing up in a family with a fugitive for a father. Unbelievable that for most of their lives, the children did not know as they suffered from never really laying down roots. Lots of emotion here too, especially as the children become adults. and navigate parent-child relationships that make the typical drama pale in comparison. Thank you NetGalley and publishers for providing a digital ARC for review.

Wow. This book tugged at many different emotions from me. I thank the author for allowing us into her life. Very powerful read. Thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for the arc of this book in return for my thoughts. Receiving the book in this manner had no bearing on this review.

This is one of those books that you can picture as a movie. No Way Home by Tyler Wetherall is a gripping story about Tyler’s childhood as the daughter of a man who was wanted by the FBI and Scotland Yard. The further I got into the book, the more I liked it and needed to know how everything was going to play out.

I love a good memoir and this one is the first I’ve read for 2018, did not disappoint!

Synopsis:

Tyler had lived in thirteen houses and five countries by the time she was nine. A willful and curious child, she never questioned her strange upbringing, that is, until Scotland Yard showed up outside her ramshackle English home, and she discovered her family had been living a lie: Her father was a fugitive and her name was not her own.

In sunny California, ten years earlier, her father’s criminal organization first came to the FBI’s attention. Soon after her parents were forced on the run taking their three young children with them, and they spent the following years fleeing through Europe, assuming different identities and hiding out in a series of far-flung places. Now her father was attempting one final escape—except this time, he couldn’t take her with him.

No Way Home was the first memoir I've read this year. I'd like to thank NetGalley and the publisher, St. Martin's Press for providing me with a galley copy of the book for an honest review. No Way Home was one of the best memoirs I've read. Tyler Wetherall's life on the run with her divorced parents was heartbreaking and painfully honest. By the time she was a teen, Tyler had lived in 35 different homes and locations, with her mother and two siblings or on visits with her father, who was on the run from both the FBI and Scotland Yard. Her story takes the reader from America to London to Paris to Rome and St. Lucia and back. The fact that Tyler is able to write this story and, from my perspective, to go on a live a relatively normal life is absolutely amazing and fascinating. I recommend this book for young adults and adults alike. I hope the book does well when it is published in April 2018.

This book was one of the best books I read in 2017. The story was compelling and the book was a page turner for me, having read this book in two days. I will be recommending this book to my book club for consideration.
The author told this story of her childhood, as a fugitive due to her father's choices. The book was well written and revealed the author's feelings as a child who was trying to make sense of their dysfunctional family. She wrote in the past, but also threw in present day chapters, which brought the reader to understand the long term effects this life has brought her. The book reads like a novel, which develops the characters that she calls her family. .

Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher. and the author for allowing me to read and review a digital copy of this book, for an honest review.

Not bad overall. Family dysfunction over the course of a young girl’s life as she comes to term with her fathers life as a drug smuggler and her mother try to protect her and her siblings from it. Based on a true story, I feel it would’ve been better if just written from a fifty point of view, not trying to take a view of the authors’ ‘true life’.