Christine (luvmygem) - reviewed on 5/3/2009 + 86 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

At first I found this book to be rather confusing - flashbacks, flash forwards, passages where at first I was not quite sure from which character's point of view they were written, but it came together eventually and at that point I thought it was brilliant. A young woman receives word that the great aunt she never knew she had has to find a place to live when the asylum she was committed to decades earlier is slated to close. There are some very interesting twists and turns, building up to an ending I did not quite expect. I would have liked one more chapter, explaining what happens to Esme and Iris. As soon as I finished this book, I actually flipped through and re-read the majority of it, as it made more sense to me.

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