Perfect family, only Dad is a serial murderer. Wife discovers only when car smashes into garage revealing murdered girl. Now mother and children are trying to live peacefully away from their past, but Internet stalkers are after them--stalkers believe Mom helped Dad. Daughter is acting out as Goth; son is introvert. Son's phone is "lost" for a bit, but then returned. Are stalkers onto him?Good start.
"To all humankind, Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends, she was only a frequently passing thought." Angel Clare is a good character. He's "enlightened," in so many ways, but when Tess's confesses her "crime," he reverts to ancestral form . . . Tess's "confession" comes earlier than I expected, right after Angel reveals that he has had a bad moment with a woman. Tess points out the similarity in their transgressions, though his is the only true transgression, expecting forgiveness. She doesn't get it. She returns to her mother . . . realizes she can't stay with her. Thoughts to suicide. Unhappiness that divorce is not possible. Departs. Tragic in that the two, if Angel could just see clearly, would indeed be a great couple, each adding to the other. Nature as a definite force involved in the tragedy. It's not neutral--when things go bad, the very skies mock Tess. Tess as unaware of the power of her bea...
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