skygiants

Ahahaha YES this is truly the perfect recovering-from-illness book, because it is SO off the wall.

The girl who KILLS PEOPLE with her well-meant WHITE LIES. (I'm so baffled by this on, like, a thematic level. The discrepancy between Anne-Marie's little white lies and the consequence, DEATH, is so huge that it feels bizarrely like an 18th century didactic story for children, except what's the lesson Lindop wants us to take from it?)

SYLVIA who I really expected to be angrier about the fact that Anne-Marie (a) slept with Sylvia's husband, and (b) lied about her identity for months even though that meant everyone believed Sylvia was suffering from delusions. I could get over (a) on the grounds that maybe Sylvia is glad to have an excuse to divorce him, but (b)?

The GANGSTER who PAYS FOR ANNE-MARIE'S PLASTIC SURGERY. (Did you catch the part where Anne-Marie mentions that she fell in love with him, but he would never sleep with her? Yet ANOTHER instance of a classic Lindop "teen girl with a crush on an inaccessible older man.")

Also would like to note that in this one instance, the teen girl grew up and attained one of her unattainable older men (after undergoing extensive plastic surgery so he couldn't recognize her) and it was so not worth it.