tell you what.i wouldn't want a family members death to be the start of finding out things about them. it feels harder. as like in this book the person isn't there to answer back, tell their side, give explanations.
this is a family. messy. and lots of us have been here. but Vicki also takes that plot and premise and runs with it.
the layers built with a smart and all tied together plot. but the characters is where its at here. you cant look away but also you feel like you are being privy to too much of this family too. its like someone has allowed us to walk past that window with the curtains open and instead of walking on by you've set up a seat by the windowsill, settled in and continued to watch!
the interactions between the family feels tense. like something is going on, or has gone on or will go on. its brings a certain unease to the read.
with every chapter and each character change i was more and more invested. the words felt so personal. somehow like we are there with the characters. i particularly felt this when we switched back to Nina. her voice to me kept me so invested in this. and as other voices have their chapters they are so distinct from another, i love it when authors have the skill to do that.
no matter the subject matter in this book every time the sisters spoke to each other i just found myself smiling. it felt exactly like sisters.that woven seamless together no beginning or end kind of stream that comes from them.
i knew as soon as i saw the cover that i wanted to read this. the blurb then sucked me in some more. and the book as a whole just kept me wanting to turn pages. id come to care about this family and wanted to follow them through to their end.and i loved how we got the epilogue of years later but then a little bit more besides that. it finished this books off to perfection and had me do that inner happy dance at how brilliantly this ended the story id just become so involved in.