Land has portrayed Milly in such a way that it is hard not to feel deep sympathy towards this young girl. Annie too, has suffered terribly at the hands of her mother, but at the age of fifteen, she decides to inform the police of her mother's crimes. I waited for you to sweep me up, rub our noses together in an Eskimo kiss and reply, you came for me, you belong with me, I love you. I felt a lot of sympathy for her not only with her upbringing but also with the school bullies and the fact that she felt that she was so alone. Milly also frequently "talks" to her estranged mother and sometimes it was confusing to me as a reader.

The style of writing lends itself well to the sharp pacey storyline and keeps you wondering what will happen next.For Lindsay and Brenda they were unable to feel any creepiness or dread as they were so overwhelmed by the mean girls and everything this story touched on which was pretty much everything but the kitchen sink.

Furthermore, the kids that her mom hurt and whom she watched through the peephole haunts her everywhere she goes. A therapist household sounds ideal but there was more going on here, making this a less than healthy environment for a troubled young girl.But I guess the point was- to the outside they look like they're thriving when I'm actual fact it's a load of rubbish and they are just as messed up as the patients he sees. If Milly thinks her life will change for the better then she hasn't bargained for Phoebe, the teenage daughter of the family, who hates Milly on sight. We remain poised at the edge of our seats waiting for the figurative shoe to drop--if a shoe exists at all. This is one of those plots where you find yourself second guessing yourself as you read and make predictions of where the book is going only to change your mind a few chapters later.

She asks herself, can I ever overcome the influence of my mother – and which version of me will triumph, the good me or the bad me? The last victim was the one that broke the camels back for Annie, she was very close to the victim, the author made you feel the emotionally pull between Annie and the mother's last victim. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.As her mother's trial gets ever nearer, Milly is given preparation for the questioning that she will face in court. It raised the debate of legal responsibility/mental health and foster care in our household - that actually got quite heated- I can't say many books have done that! Afterwards she’s given a new identity-- Milly--and is sent to live with her London psychologist, Mike Newmont, and his family.