"She'd vowed to hate Madoc, and she stuck to her vow. When Vivi wasn't reminiscing about home, she was a terror. She broke things. She screamed and raged and pinched us when we were content. Eventually, she stopped all of it, but I believe there is a part of her that hates us for adapting. For making the best of things. For making this our home".
This first impression had me hooked from the get-go; the premise itself was very intriguing, and these first pages even more so. The world is brought to live in such a short few chapters, and the characters are gleamed onto us with a few sentences. Two of the daughters are not Madoc's legitimate children, and it is clear that, as much as they despise him for what he has done to their parents, they feel a sense of love towards him for raising him as one of his own; his actual daughter, Vivi, feels no such sense of obligation.
This is definitely a book I think I will be hooked by; can't wait to read it.
This first impression had me hooked from the get-go; the premise itself was very intriguing, and these first pages even more so. The world is brought to live in such a short few chapters, and the characters are gleamed onto us with a few sentences. Two of the daughters are not Madoc's legitimate children, and it is clear that, as much as they despise him for what he has done to their parents, they feel a sense of love towards him for raising him as one of his own; his actual daughter, Vivi, feels no such sense of obligation.
This is definitely a book I think I will be hooked by; can't wait to read it.