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This book had me spinning from page one.
It felt like historical fiction—until I found out that it wasn’t. I thought I knew where it was headed—until I didn’t. I thought it was realism until—sorry, no spoilers.
The Haddesley siblings are a truly messed-up bunch. Each of them has their own quirks, and each of them has their own extreme dysfunction. But I couldn’t help identifying with them, even in their weirdness.
I hoped they could make it out of the swirling vortex of their history and the lies surrounding them. And then everything took a twist.
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