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Insert random 3 paragraph chunk of first person.

"David was talking, with amiable condescension, to the younger Lloyd boy"

Amiable condescension. Yes, that's the ticket.

You can kind of feel something when she's fighting with her family, but mostly not. Suspense fail :(

There is a good story in here, but damn, the narrative style is just. wtf, Raymond Chandler.

What a bizarre child.

I very much like the prose, but she's doing this situation to date recap and instead of just straight narration, she's couching some of it as Lucia's inner monologue. I'm like, nobody thinks like that.