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krystal_lacelle 's review for:
Darling Girls
by Sally Hepworth
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This was such a great but twisted story. Three girls meet at a foster home and become chosen sisters. Bonded for life by trauma and become each other’s safe place. Their foster mother was awful to them, a woman who was mentally unwell, and should never have been allowed to foster.
Told from the POV of each sister which I loved. We really got to get to know each of their back stories, how all their childhood impacted their adulthood, and how they managed to overcome that.
The entire book was a bit slow but it’s packed with secrets and twists! Your mind will be blown in the end. This book gives you an inside look at the dark side of foster care, a broken system really which is incredibly scary. Trigger warning: child abuse.
Added tidbit. I loved Alicia’s thoughts on foster kids being told “they’re lucky to have been placed in a nice home.” That they’re not necessarily lucky, that no child wants to be born into a family that doesn’t want them, or can’t take care of them. How in the end she told Arron, she was the lucky one. That was beautiful.
Told from the POV of each sister which I loved. We really got to get to know each of their back stories, how all their childhood impacted their adulthood, and how they managed to overcome that.
The entire book was a bit slow but it’s packed with secrets and twists! Your mind will be blown in the end. This book gives you an inside look at the dark side of foster care, a broken system really which is incredibly scary. Trigger warning: child abuse.
Added tidbit. I loved Alicia’s thoughts on foster kids being told “they’re lucky to have been placed in a nice home.” That they’re not necessarily lucky, that no child wants to be born into a family that doesn’t want them, or can’t take care of them. How in the end she told Arron, she was the lucky one. That was beautiful.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Death of parent