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Feb 14, 2017madoc22 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Warning: contains spoilers. I loved the first three quarters of this book. The writing is superb. I even wrote down some quotes in my book of notes, they were that good. I kept wishing the author had a long list of books and that this book wasn't her first. However, in the last quarter of the book, it all falls apart. What promised to be a gentle family saga turns out to be revolting. It becomes about incest, with unnecessary and disturbing descriptions and about two little girls committing acts that were not appropriate for their ages. What they do to Emily is very disturbing and completely unbelievable since they were children themselves. The unraveling of the mystery was totally depressing and was a compete let-down for me. It left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I don't know if I ever want to read another book by Heather Young.