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Reply To: Did you want more about Lessa?

Laura DiBacco — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 13:29:34 +0000

I thought Lessa’s whole story was strange. Right from the beginning I got the sense she chose him because it would upset her parents. I agree she could have left the marriage easily. I can possibly see why she’d kill her husband to get away from him (in a story), but to go on and kill so many others?

Reply To: Twisted family

LynnS — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:06:28 +0000

Yes, agreed.

Did you want more about Lessa?

Anne Goff — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:21:22 +0000

I found myself questioning how Lessa got from a rich socialite to killing her abusive husband to being a mass murderer. In the Lessa chapters I never felt she was a psychopath. She came across as a rich, somewhat entitled young woman who became trapped in an ever more abusive marriage. Thinking of killing her husband as the only solution to escaping her marriage seemed extreme only because with her parents’ money and power, she likely could have gotten out (unlike so many women in abusive relationships who have no outside resources). But I still don’t understand how she became a woman who plotted the murder of so many people. I felt it was a big hole in the story. Did you see something I missed?

Reply To: Should This Book Stay on the List?

Anne Goff — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:11:51 +0000

The isolated setting of the house definitely set the stage for the story. But, other than a mention of the Black Hills, I didn’t feel the setting reflected much about South Dakota.

Reply To: Twisted family

Anne Goff — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:08:03 +0000

I wondered if her parents knew that she was living in the walls of her old house with a daughter. Did she have any contact with Isaac after she gave him to her parents? How old was he when she gave him to them? So many questions created by the end of the book.

Twisted family

LynnS — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:33:36 +0000

Any thoughts on whether Isaac knew about his twisted mother and sister? Also, wondering what happened in the end to Aidy and Lessa.

Should This Book Stay on the List?

Book Girls’ Guide — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:36:00 +0000

Was this book a good fit for the Read Around the USA Challenge?