A review by venusbloo
Sundial by Catriona Ward

Did not finish book. Stopped at 41%.

The ideas are muddled.  Most of what I read was just descriptions of varying degrees of domestic abuse/violence and child abuse/neglect.  There seemed to be some supernatural background elements, but it didn't get explained by nearly halfway through the book.  I peeked at the end, and that did not help explain anything at except it appeared the major conflict between the mother and daughter was resolved even if other conflicts in the story weren't.  Just a strange book that I didn't really vibe with.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Misogyny, and Physical abuse