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A review by thereadingmum
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-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? Yes
4.5
This was not what I expected when I picked it up but I got totally sucked in to the Butlers' stories.
Four children, one an infant, lose their mother to illness. Their father, an evangelical pastor, leaves the eldest, Althea, to care for her siblings for long stretches of time though she is only 12 herself.
Everything comes to a head decades later when Althea and her husband are jailed for fraud, leaving their twin teenage daughters in the care of Althea's siblings.
This is human drama done well. There's little sentimentality or wallowing. The reader is allowed to come to their own conclusions about each character's actions.
I found one part of it a bit off, but it wasn't pivotal and overall I enjoyed my time with this novel.
Four children, one an infant, lose their mother to illness. Their father, an evangelical pastor, leaves the eldest, Althea, to care for her siblings for long stretches of time though she is only 12 herself.
Everything comes to a head decades later when Althea and her husband are jailed for fraud, leaving their twin teenage daughters in the care of Althea's siblings.
This is human drama done well. There's little sentimentality or wallowing. The reader is allowed to come to their own conclusions about each character's actions.
I found one part of it a bit off, but it wasn't pivotal and overall I enjoyed my time with this novel.