Super cute book with a main character that will steal your heart. She is big and lovable and a bit chaotic. The book overall is well done and I loved it from start to finish.

This was a really cute book. It was very cute and family oriented and I really liked that. The romance was really cute. I would recommend this book.

I had to DNF this at 23%.. I love the concept of this book. Traveling to the country your family is from to participate in a competition to find out about your ancestry? Sold me immediately. And then I met the FMC and it was over. There is white-guilt (very relevant in real life, very important, needs to be addressed more in media) and then there's whatever this story was. The stereotypes were SO heavy handed that every single character was immediately unlikable. Every. Single. One. I do hope for people that make it through this book that the characters become not so one-dimensional.

"Not to put too fine a point on it, but we were all white. The white of Wonder bread, soft serve, mashed potatoes, picket fences, musical theatre, Teva sandals, one-drop rules, and Daughters of the American Revolution. As fair as a county fair, as pale as unfair comparisons," followed by "we waddled behind her with out luggage like little white ducklings." WE GET IT. YOU'RE WHITE. WHY SO MANY "UNFAIR COMPARISONS?" Holy smokes you're Swedish, what did you think you were all going to look like?

And just because you're talking with food in your mouth (disgusting, by the way, and it happened more than once in the first 23%), you can just SAY that the words were garbled, you don't have to spell it differently because it looks and sounds stupid. Just write it out and describe it. Or just have your characters be not people lacking manners.