Helpful Score: 2
Although I believe it was the author's intention to be vague, much was left to the imagination. Josie and Jack's lives were pretty much just a sick cycle of dysfuntion that kept going around like a merry-go-round. The big question I know a lot of readers ask is "Did they, or didn't they?" Their relationship was far more intimate than that of normal brother and sister. I would have to say that as I do like the premises of Braffet's books, ~like Last Seen Leaving~ it just feels a little too unresolved and anticlimatic in the end. Although the ending here left me a little awe-struck. Worth the read, but nothing ground breaking!
Helpful Score: 1
This is a very disturbing novel, but one you can't put down. Very intense...haunting...strange & wonderful. Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie & Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existance in their decaying western Pennsylvania home. The only adult in their lives is their rage-prone father, a physicist, whose erratic behavior finally drives them away. Without a moral compass to guide them, Jack leads Josie into a menacing world of wealth, erticism, and betrayal. His sociopathic tendencies emerge, and soon Josie must decide which is stronger, the love and devotion she feels for her brother or her will to survive.
Helpful Score: 1
Very dark, but a page turner. Recommended.
