My Sister Rosa in Aussie Readers

Jan 27, 2016 Rebecca rated it really liked it

Shelves: adult, read-in-2016, young-adult, genre-thriller

Actual rating: 4.5

Duuuuuuuude. You all know I love morally grey characters, but Rosa is like above and beyond that. She's not morally gray, she's a legitimate psychopath. I love the way her character was dealt with though. She wasn't a typical, horror character. She was real, which makes her even freaking creepier. Because people like her really do exist.

Che was a super interesting character. I loved seeing things from his POV and finding things out alongside with him as shit went down.

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Sep 28, 2016 Paula Phillips rated it it was amazing

What would you do if you knew that one of your family members was a psychopath ? Would you just sit by and do nothing as it gets worst or would you try and seek help or solve it the only way you can imagine ? Would you wait till things got completely out of hand before you would do anything or would you try and nip it in the bud ?

My Sister Rosa is a story told from the perspective of Che who is 17 years old and Rosa's older brother. Rosa is ten years old and the spitting image of Shirley Templ What would you do if you knew that one of your family members was a psychopath ? Would you just sit by and do nothing as it gets worst or would you try and seek help or solve it the only way you can imagine ? Would you wait till things got completely out of hand before you would do anything or would you try and nip it in the bud ?

My Sister Rosa is a story told from the perspective of Che who is 17 years old and Rosa's older brother. Rosa is ten years old and the spitting image of Shirley Temple. She doesn't look like she could hurt a fly, especially since she looks like an angelic little blonde curly hair and blue eyed doll. The thing though is that Che is convinced that his sister is a budding pyschopath and with their latest move from Australia to New York , things are about to get a whole lot worst especially as it looks like Rosa is progressing from convincing her best friend to kill her guinea pig. As someone who has a family member or two that suffer from the similar personalities, I found this book really enlightening and at times scary to read especially as Che gets further into the novel and discovers that Psychopathy is actually genetic. One of the parts of the book that fascinated me was after tragedy strikes and Che is convinced that Rosa is getting worst, Che and Rosa go for an MRI which showed their brain patterns and talked about how with people who suffer from psychopathy that they tend to have dark patches in their brain scans. This part got me thinking about my own family and what the results of all of our brain scans would be. Without giving too much of the story away, as this is definitely a book that I suggest everyone should read - even if you are only wanting to gain a little bit of insight into what it is like to live with someone who is on the psychopathy scale. I had previously read one of Justine's books Liar but wasn't too impressed, but I have to admit My Sister Rosa was amazing and I consider this to be one of those WOW everyone must read books and if you are studying psychology or social work, this should be one of your fictional education reads. ...more

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Apr 28, 2017 Alan Baxter rated it liked it

Shelves: thriller, young-adult

Dark and twisted with a truly disturbing premise. But an ending that went a bit too far beyond the realms of believability and some other try-hard elements (like the overly written newbie boxer author voice) prevent this from being outstanding. Still a well-written read that rocks along. Overall I enjoyed it.

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Aug 11, 2016 Tanya rated it liked it

I'm finding it quite hard to write a review for this, because it isn't a 'nice' story. No one lives happily ever after, everyone's lives are just messed up and irrevocably changed. And for what?

Che is a 17 year old boy who is essentially raising his 10 year old sister Rosa. His parents are always at work, and even when not they're blind to her actions and behaviours. Che is her confidant though, he knows exactly who and what Rosa is. It's his job to protect the world from a tap dancing Shirley T ...more

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Jan 26, 2021 John rated it really liked it

An interesting book! About a seventeen year old boy who believes his ten year old sister is a psychopath. It was a thrilling and unique YA story. It kept me up very late wanting to know what was going to happen .

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