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evanbaker 's review for:
Winter Sisters
by Robin Oliveira
*****CONTAINS SPOILERS ***** writing a summary of the book to refresh my memory so this has spoilers.
I got this book at the dollar store one day because I saw it was rated well and it was only a dollar, so I didn’t have super high expectations of the book, but it was very good!
The writing style made it hard to get into the book at first, but the book takes place in the 1800’s so the writing style does match that well.
The story is about a horrible snow storm that hits the town and parents that leave their jobs for the day to try and go get their daughters from school to get them home. Both the mom and dad are killed and freeze to death in the storm and do not get to the school.
A man in a sled picks up the two sisters from school and brings them to another mans house. The whole town is looking for the girls and eventually give up and have a funeral for the entire family that the family friends coordinate. At the funeral a very wealthy family comes (mom dad and son) to give their condolences. The son meets Elizabeth, the cousin of the girls and they hit it off.
Weeks later, the town experiences a flood and the girls escape the basement of the man and make it to their family friends house. The man who was keeping them in the basement was put on trial and the wearily sad forces his son to represent the man at court because he worked for the family.
The son does not want to represent him because he was holding the girls hostage and he is interested In the girls cousin who would likely not forgive him for defending the man.
The two girls said that they were locked in “the mans” basement, but that was the “Other man” who would come to the house and rape the older of the two sisters. Many people did not believe this and thought that the older girl was imagining the Other Man as a coping mechanism.
But at trial, the son that was defending the man argued that there was in fact another man, and then proves that the Other Man was actually his father.
I got this book at the dollar store one day because I saw it was rated well and it was only a dollar, so I didn’t have super high expectations of the book, but it was very good!
The writing style made it hard to get into the book at first, but the book takes place in the 1800’s so the writing style does match that well.
The story is about a horrible snow storm that hits the town and parents that leave their jobs for the day to try and go get their daughters from school to get them home. Both the mom and dad are killed and freeze to death in the storm and do not get to the school.
A man in a sled picks up the two sisters from school and brings them to another mans house. The whole town is looking for the girls and eventually give up and have a funeral for the entire family that the family friends coordinate. At the funeral a very wealthy family comes (mom dad and son) to give their condolences. The son meets Elizabeth, the cousin of the girls and they hit it off.
Weeks later, the town experiences a flood and the girls escape the basement of the man and make it to their family friends house. The man who was keeping them in the basement was put on trial and the wearily sad forces his son to represent the man at court because he worked for the family.
The son does not want to represent him because he was holding the girls hostage and he is interested In the girls cousin who would likely not forgive him for defending the man.
The two girls said that they were locked in “the mans” basement, but that was the “Other man” who would come to the house and rape the older of the two sisters. Many people did not believe this and thought that the older girl was imagining the Other Man as a coping mechanism.
But at trial, the son that was defending the man argued that there was in fact another man, and then proves that the Other Man was actually his father.