My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
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lightreadsMy Sister Rosa
3/5. Seventeen-year-old boy moves to NYC with his entrepreneur parents and his little sister, the budding psychopath. He wants to protect her, or protect everyone else from her – one of those.
I said "yikes, this is a car crash" in the first ten percent of this book, and I don't think it's a spoiler to confirm that yeah, it is. This book shares some DNA with her Liar -- interested in competing narratives and in how we conceive of the origins of evilness in people. Not so much where the evil comes from, but in why we ask that question and what our answers – genes, environment, bad luck – say about us.
So this is interesting, but at a certain point with an author you have to acknowledge that they like writing car crashes, and that you only like reading car crashes under very limited, specific circumstances.
Content notes: Child harm.
3/5. Seventeen-year-old boy moves to NYC with his entrepreneur parents and his little sister, the budding psychopath. He wants to protect her, or protect everyone else from her – one of those.
I said "yikes, this is a car crash" in the first ten percent of this book, and I don't think it's a spoiler to confirm that yeah, it is. This book shares some DNA with her Liar -- interested in competing narratives and in how we conceive of the origins of evilness in people. Not so much where the evil comes from, but in why we ask that question and what our answers – genes, environment, bad luck – say about us.
So this is interesting, but at a certain point with an author you have to acknowledge that they like writing car crashes, and that you only like reading car crashes under very limited, specific circumstances.
Content notes: Child harm.