I'm guessing this book won't make it on a feminist top ten list. So, plot turns galore. Kirstie/Lydia tells Mom that Dad was always hugging Kirstie. Mom hears sexual abuse . . . for good reason. So she hates Angus. Kirstie/Lydia continues to strike fear into her classmates. She talks to her dead sister, so the kids think she's nuts and haunted. Mom is, naturally, pained by the rejection her daughter faces.
But then. Beany the dog gets lost and almost drowns, or does drown. Angus maybe saves the dog and he almost drowns. Storm coming. Sarah tells Gus she wants him off the island. He goes. He calls. She accuses him of being a daughter molester. He denies it, tells her to read the letter in his bottom drawer, to talk to Kirstie/Lydia again. Sarah does, and not Kirstie/Lydia tells her that the affection wasn't sexual. "No, not like the way you kiss daddy. No!" Sarah, who had a knife in her hand and contemplated murdering Angus, goes upstairs to the dresser.
And what does the letter say? It is from her doctor and states that Sarah, on the day her daughter died, was having sex with a stranger in a spare bedroom in her parent's house. She wasn't supervising her children, screamed at them, and then S or K tried to climb from the roof. S or K slipped, grabbed hold of the other twin, and both were about to plunge to their death until TWINWHOLIVED pushes free from her sister who falls to her death.\
Sarah, after this, is put on anti-depression medication. She also suffers from selective amnesia--doesn't remember the sex or her part in the death of her daughter.
And now the storm is getting more fierce. Sarah, unhinged maybe, seems to encounter the ghost of her dead daughter. Now she wants to get off the island. Death for Sarah and TWINWHOLIVED? Or will Angus save them at the last minute. Or will the whole family die?
Terrific page-turner, well-written, but the plot is more than a bit over the top.
But then. Beany the dog gets lost and almost drowns, or does drown. Angus maybe saves the dog and he almost drowns. Storm coming. Sarah tells Gus she wants him off the island. He goes. He calls. She accuses him of being a daughter molester. He denies it, tells her to read the letter in his bottom drawer, to talk to Kirstie/Lydia again. Sarah does, and not Kirstie/Lydia tells her that the affection wasn't sexual. "No, not like the way you kiss daddy. No!" Sarah, who had a knife in her hand and contemplated murdering Angus, goes upstairs to the dresser.
And what does the letter say? It is from her doctor and states that Sarah, on the day her daughter died, was having sex with a stranger in a spare bedroom in her parent's house. She wasn't supervising her children, screamed at them, and then S or K tried to climb from the roof. S or K slipped, grabbed hold of the other twin, and both were about to plunge to their death until TWINWHOLIVED pushes free from her sister who falls to her death.\
Sarah, after this, is put on anti-depression medication. She also suffers from selective amnesia--doesn't remember the sex or her part in the death of her daughter.
And now the storm is getting more fierce. Sarah, unhinged maybe, seems to encounter the ghost of her dead daughter. Now she wants to get off the island. Death for Sarah and TWINWHOLIVED? Or will Angus save them at the last minute. Or will the whole family die?
Terrific page-turner, well-written, but the plot is more than a bit over the top.
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