Reviews for Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul: Stories Celebrating Forever Families

The average rating for Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul: Stories Celebrating Forever Families based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-02 00:00:00 Daniel Dunajsky Because I'm adopted, I really enjoyed this book; I could relate so well to it. Makes me want to meet my birthparents!!! It also really makes me appreciate the fact that my parents adopted me at 3 months old. I wonder what my life would've been like, had they not chosen me. It was good for me to read stories from others who are adopted, & also to read the perspectives of the birthmothers who gave their babies up for adoption.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-19 00:00:00 Ron Scerbo It seems to me that books in the Chicken Soup series are getting lower in quality. Overall, I would say that, although most stories are interesting and emotional, they are so similar in content that they become almost tedious to read. But most disappointing is the writing style. To me, this book reads like a factual recounting of experiences rather than intensely emotional experiences. There are stories in the book which I have heard before which were so exciting that I still remember them decades later. But the same stories recounted here just seem to lack the excitement and drama. I think that better authors or editors are needed now in this series. I am not meaning to minimize the trauma and emotions and drama experienced by families giving up their children, or having mothers back out of the agreement at childbirth, or of infertile parents spending thousands of dollars and agonizing waits hoping for a child, or of the reunions of mothers and the children they gave up for adoption. I am simply saying that if it were my story being told, I would want someone to communicate better my experience so that the readers could relate to me and empathize. Overall, I have been disappointed by the more recent books in this series. I had to force myself to read to the end of this book. Too bad, because these books used to be very inspirational.