What Makes Us by Rafi Mittlefehld is kind of a coming of age Story but it takes place in about a weeks time. It is a story about self discovery quite literally. I feel like a broken record when I say the story way good but… But the story was just that, good. I felt this book had the opportunity to be more enlightening. It felt rushed and seemed that a lot of stuff didn’t happen yet happened at the same time.

What if the life you knew wasn’t the truth? That everything you thought you knew about yourself was just wrong? What if you found out your Father was a terrorist suicide bomber? And your name wasn’t the one thou were born with? What if…

These are the questions Eran Sharon is facing after a small community protest he planed gets out of hand. All of a sudden he’s gaining national attention. In the center of a media circus secrets about who he really is, who his father was, and protests against him make his life into something he doesn’t recognize.

Eran’s friend, Jade, is also finding out secrets about her family in the midst of the turmoil her town is in. Her own questions about the past surface and she also starts questioning who she is.

With these two teens, just got a bit more complicated and things are becoming clear.  But more with clothes comes questions about who they are. In the end they find out what circumstances have lead them to where and who they are today.

I give this book a 2 out of 5 stars. The story was okay-good but it just didn’t live up to the potential I thought I could.

Thank you NetGalley for a copy of this book for a fair and honest review.