Murdoch seems too good to be true, and Matt never sounds like either a fourteen year old (his age when the events take place) or a seventeen year old (his age when he's writing it all down). Werlin attempts but never really succeeds in making Nikki more than a psycho villain, and while youngest sister Emmy shows signs of spunky life, she too often seems the streotype of an abused child. The characters, however, left something to be desired.
The plot of this book was interesting, and kept the story moving with the taut tenseness of what Nikki would do next. After the break-up, Murdoch becomes a target of Nikki's wrath, but also helps the kids forge a life away from her. The book begins when Matt meets Murdoch, saver of small children, who eventually goes out with and then breaks up with Nikki. Seventeen-year-old Matt writes of his and his sisters' abuse as children at the hands of their mom, Nikki.
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