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This book was just so slow and it didn‘t really have much to grab the reader‘s attention. I thought it was going to be a quick read like some of Sara Shepard‘s other books, but I felt like the plot just didn‘t have enough organization and none of the characters were really likable. This one just wasn‘t for me.

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"I know, I went and ruined it. Look at all I was given, everything we ever wanted and I've messed it all up!"

"Circumstance was circumstance, and you had to make do with what you were dealt."

"Oh, there's that boy whose family I used to be obsessed with!"

"It felt like the biggest moment in her life."

"He become more than just the boy in the magazines she had saved; he become someone real."

I wanted to comment on some unrealistic dialogue and grammar issues. The dialogue doesn't seem realistic for a family, such as "I made banana bread, Charlie. Your favorite." The dynamic between Charles and his wife seems off also. She asks a lot of questions that she should know about her husband. The grammar and sentence structure is awful in this book. As an English major and writing tutor, I can't stop analyzing the poor sentence structure.

Only on page five and the book has me hooked: "But it was Scott's expression, as he'd watched the mouse flail under the dome that had made her set it free. The look on his face was one of iron-cold indifference, as if he's almost enjoyed the poor creature's suffering." Who are the Bates-McAllisters?