and so when I wrote that epilogue and saw what had really happened through the lens of Josie’s warped and broken mind, I was as shocked as I expect my readers to be. Of course, I thought to myself, of course! All along I’d been painting Roxy in these tiny splashes of dark back story without ever really exploring what a child like that might end up being capable of, especially with a pedophile for a father, a narcissist for a grandmother, and a sociopath for a mother. It was the perfect ending and made sense of everything. The relief I felt as I put it on the page was immense.
Kinda wish I didn’t read the authors notes at the end. Reading that LJ wanted readers to believe it was Roxy was hard for me… I liked how it ended and thought maybe that part would be ‘Josie’s POV’ where she’s distorting her realities. I don’t love that the author revealed she actually meant for it to be Roxy
