I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

So I definitely had to click on the read now/request button because this one looked oodles of fun. I just adore Marta Kissi’s art and a whole book with her illustrations? YES please!

This book is about Emma. Emma who is in the middle of her siblings. She has an older and a younger brother whose nicknames are Big and Little which is just perfect for them… but what about Emma? She is just Medium and as we see in this book she isn’t too happy with that and is making a grand plan to do different this year. She is going to stop being Medium. I loved that plan and I also could understand it after reading several pages of this book. I don’t know from personal experience as I am an only child. I was looking forward to seeing what Emma would do and how everyone around her would react. I won’t spoil anything, but it was quite fun to see her try something else, though I also felt for her as things weren’t easy.

I am glad that she eventually did play more with her friend from that vacation place, I was worried that in all her grand planning she was going to ignore him/not play with him. I get that he is also a Medium and she wants to be something different, but come on, you only see him so little, play with him!

I loved seeing what the families did together. From just days at the beach to visiting fun places~ I would definitely have loved to be part of this vacation. Going to the beach for a week? Sign me up!

I do would have liked to see the parents see Emma a bit more. Like in the restaurant. Great that your three-year old wants something, but that is an opportunity to just teach him no. You cannot just let your three-year old get away with everything at the cost of the two older ones. Because that is what kept happening. He wrecked something? Well, he just a tiny little baby he cannot help himself. No. At 3 years old you can at least try to teach him that there is something like no. That some things are just not good. Because now you have two older ones who just have to live with a wrecking ball that keeps crying if it doesn’t get what it wants.

I am happy that nearer to the end Emma was able to talk to her that and that apparently the parents have talked given the ending. That made me happy. I am still not sure about Emma’s decision at the end though. Not going to say what, but it just didn’t click for me after all that happened in the book.

The illustrations, well, they are awesome. I love the style so much!

All in all, I do hope that we get more Emma Just Medium books because this one was fun! I would recommend it~