I love this author. I read We are all liars pretty quickly and only happened on this prequel by chance. Honestly, I didn’t know how the author was going to tie together the two stories or if she’d be able to have a twist quite like the other book. I was wrong.
The book follows the mother of one of the Sinclair children as she marks a year of life in her adolescence. There’s a almost a quiet lull in this book, a calm before the storm, and all of a sudden things begin to really pick up.
Lockhart makes me think of the how things progress, how one exciting moment can change all of our lives together, no matter how small. I find myself thinking of how there are these moments, these moments that we don’t really see how they’ll affect the rest of our lives. How little things can turn into big things and how they can haunt us through the generations.
This book was a good addition to this particular world and managed to surprise me as much as the original book I’d read, which in and of itself was quite shocking. I thought there was no way the author could keep up the twists and yet, she did.