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I'll admit that I was first drawn to this book by its titilating premise of brother/sister love, but I couldn't wait to read it after reading the fantastic reviews. Unfortunately, this book didn't live up to the hype. I disliked the shifting points of view between Lochan and Maya, which I felt had a similar voice. Mum is yet another 2-D neglectful wreck out of central casting, and the youngest siblings fail to register. Melodramatic and overwrought, this takes its place next to Flowers in the At
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Beautifully told in the alternating voices of a brother and sister who fall in love while trying to hold their family together after their father remarries and moves to Australia to begin a new family and their mother falls deeper into alcoholism and becomes increasingly neglectful of her 5 children. While you know that their feelings for each other are illegal, you find yourself sympathizing with them and at some points even hoping that it would work out even though you knew it shouldn’t/couldn
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