![]() ![]() If it were me, I would have strangled that close-lipped aunt of hers a long time ago. In fact, she seems to be content NOT to resolve them. She doesn’t manage to resolve the mysteries surrounding her. She doesn’t manage to overcome her full-blown inferiority complex (sooner or later, even she has to understand that what happens around her is real and that she’s not crazy). Olivia doesn’t manage to detach herself from her ‘guards’. She willingly accepts, obeys and excuses which is, to me, just another sign of her weakness. That includes Shade, her one-dimensional aunt, and her less than sympathetic boyfriend. But I desperately hoped for Olivia to emancipate herself from those locals who decide every minute of her life. Like everyone else in the book, he has a habit of sending her to bed whenever she becomes too ‘emotional’.ĭon’t get me wrong. ![]() Unfortunately, though, I have a pro blem with weak and whining heroines that allow others to treat them like babies - especially the hero! Because that’s what Shade does. Of course, it doesn’t help her constitution that she gets whisked away by her aunt to a town full of dangerous secrets. ![]()
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