I listened to this story via our library "hoopla" access. The reader's voice was easy to listen to and the story of Ellen and her Aunt Ruth was one that kept me listening daily until the expected ending. I wasn't sure how it would all come together, but I knew the end would be worth the wait. It was! Friendship, and tigers and elephants... oh my!!

A well crafted, emotionally intense story, that left me in tears at times. Suspenseful and intriguing, I thoroughly enjoyed the characters, even if I usually don't like stories set in a circus (we could get into a discussion of what I think about traveling circuses, but after all, this is only fiction).
I was mesmerized, and could not put the book down to the end.

Thank you for this book. Unfortunately, because it was an advance copy it had intentional or unintentional - I am not sure - errors in it - the names ruth and ray were not capitalized and there were some other oddities which made it difficult to read. I will look for the completed copy in the future to read or listen to.

Book was reviewed on my blog a very long time ago. I have migrated blog since then and it is somewhere in archives or completely lost in the ether. (Sad times)