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Dec 21, 2012
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4.5 stars!
'Worrywart' hardly covers Juliet's most almost pathological obsessiveness with ordering her world. She shows signs of what I'd call 'parental inversion', taking on the role of an adult when her mother and father act in childish ways. She's a little Miss Fix-it who rushes to invent ways to make things right.
Her sister Ophelia aka 'Oaf' is one of the most irritating little brats I've encountered in many a long year of reading. She's also one of the funniest. The sort of kid you don't kno ...more
'Worrywart' hardly covers Juliet's most almost pathological obsessiveness with ordering her world. She shows signs of what I'd call 'parental inversion', taking on the role of an adult when her mother and father act in childish ways. She's a little Miss Fix-it who rushes to invent ways to make things right.
Her sister Ophelia aka 'Oaf' is one of the most irritating little brats I've encountered in many a long year of reading. She's also one of the funniest. The sort of kid you don't kno ...more
