Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing this Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own.

“Just a Regular Boy” by Catherine Ryan Hyde is a story of survival, hope and unconditional love.

A young boy who has been isolated from the world and left to fend for himself in the wild since he had been 5 years old. Can you imagine what he has to do to survive? Will he be able to find a found family, or will he be isolated forever? The answers to these questions reside in this book.

Anne, the mother of two adopted children, begins to feel that she wants to foster and potentially adopt one more child in order to fulfill her idea of a complete family. When she gets to know Remy Blake, an 8-year-old boy who seems wild and feral because of his yearslong ordeal in the wilderness, she is unable to stop herself from taking him in.

She expects that the arrangement will be quite challenging to both her and their family. The child requires a lot of physical and emotional support and her family rallies behind her to give their best. But something else happens which not one of them expected; Remy becomes the last piece of the puzzle that holds the family together. 

Ryan Hyde has woven together a lovely tale portraying the best side of human beings, their potential for hope and goodness. The various ordeals Remy goes through were so very heartwrenching and the connections that he forges with the new members of his family was so much heartwarming. Hyde successfully manages to pull the reader completely into Remy’s mind by creating a totally engrossing and engaging story. 

I can’t recommend this book enough; most particularly if you are in the lookout for something that can engage your mind and heart completely.

This book gets 5 out of 5 stars.