![]() ![]() Over 100 pages pass before Lochan and Maya discover their feelings for each other. Caring for their younger siblings is chaotic and draining, a fact impressed upon readers both by heavy-handed exposition and by repetitive food disputes, bickering and belligerent outbursts from angry, defiant and reckless middle child Kit, by far the best-developed character. Their mother, an alcoholic, neglects the children, instead spending her time and money on clothing, drinking and dates with her boss. ![]() Lochan and Maya, the oldest of five siblings, narrate in alternating chapters. Andrews' infamous Flowers in the Attic, British author Suzuma spins a tawdry tale of an illicit brother-and-sister relationship. ![]()
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