Everything I Never Told You

These people were not good people. It was like reading a story of two people who never should have gotten married and had children.

James is ashamed of his skin, ashamed of his parents and does everything in his power to distance himself from his heritage. His constant desire for his children (well, really just Lydia because he ignores the other two) to be popular and ‘like everyone else' is nauseating.

Marilyn is exactly the same except instead of popular she wants Lydia to become the doctor she never became.

So then you take these two people who have revolved their whole lives around the golden middle child and you kill that child and they fall apart even more. Of course, the death of a child is going to rip any family apart, but these people were awful parents before Lydia's death.

The only good character was Hannah, the invisible child. The oops baby. There is one scene where everyone loses their collective minds and the only one up is Hannah. Wandering the house alone because no one cared to make sure she was taken care of. Any sympathy I had for the Lees went away after reading how Hannah was treated.

I don't know. The book was beautifully written, but I just couldn't muster up any sympathy for really anyone except Hannah. At the end I didn't sigh in satisfaction. I just felt let down.