Abby's Journey by Steena Holmes

Twenty-year-old Abigail Turner has only known her mother, Claire—who died shortly after she was born—through letters, videos, postcards, and journals. Abby’s father, Josh, has raised his precious daughter himself, but his overprotectiveness has become stifling. Abby longs to forge out on her own and see the world after a childhood trapped indoors: she suffers from bronchopulmonary dysplasia, which means a case of the sniffles can rapidly escalate into life-threatening pneumonia.

But when Abby’s doctor declares her healthy—for now—her grandmother Millie whisks her away to Europe to visit the Christmas markets that her mother cherished and chronicled in her travel journals. Despite her father’s objections, Abby and Millie embark on a journey of discovery in which Abby will learn secrets that force her to reevaluate her image of her mother and come to a more mature understanding of a parent-child bond that transcends death.

Review: Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of Abby's Journey by Steena Holmes that I read and reviewed.

Once again Steena Homes has written a book that pulls at your heart strings and makes you feel the emotions that the family is feeling as it plays out on pages in the book.
In Abby's Journey you meet Abby, whose mother, Claire, died shortly after giving birth to her. She only knew her mom through videos, letters, postcards, journals and books and her mother and father wrote about a boy named Jack who had all kinds of adventures and travels around the world. Abby knew she wanted to travel but she was sick since she was born and her father Josh was afraid too let her go anywhere because his biggest fear was to loose his daughter like he lost her mother.
In this book Abby is given a chance to go to Germany with her Grandmother much to her father's dismay. He is worried that she will get sick even though she has had a clean bill of heath for a year.
This book it told from the viewpoint of Abby, her grandmother and Josh as they deal with letting go of the past and dealing with finding out secrets that have been kept from them. It is an emotional story of letting go and letting someone grow up and facing the past.
Be sure to have tissue at the end because it will be needed. I am giving Abby's Journey five out of five stars.