I first met Joy Applebloom and her family back in February when I read A Girl Called Joy and I couldn't help falling for her positivity and her enthusiasm for life so when Love From Joy arrived through the letterbox the other day, I was thrilled and decided to dive straight in.
Joy and her family are still living with Joy's grandfather but Joy is juggling 8 things she's trying to deal with at the minute:
- her sister has been grounded
- her sister isn't talking to her parents
- she thinks her grandad is lonely
- Benny is being bullied but won't tell anybody but Joy about it
- she's desperate to get her teacher to like her
- she's behind in her letter writing
- she's helping to plan a top secret birthday party
- she's started sleepwalking
And so, as the book unfolds, we follow Joy as she navigates her way through all eight of the issues without letting anybody down and in her own, unique and positive way.
Joy is a wonderful person and it was a pleasure to be back with her again. I love her attitude and approach to life, especially in this book when her love of letter writing comes to the fore. As a girl, I loved writing letters and I can't help but feel that it has become somewhat of a lost art in this modern, technological age. She shows how useful letters can be. She's a very good friend, both to her sister as well as to her best friend, Benny, and her approach towards helping him solve his bullying problem was just wonderful to read - it certainly shows readers that we should always look beyond what is happening and consider what we don't really know.
Like A Girl Called Joy, this was a bright and heart-warming book; my only problem was that it finished too quickly! I wonder what Joy will get up to next.
Love From Joy is released on the 19th August.
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