Oh Sonya...

Hartnett invites us to a decaying Garden of Eden where the Willow family lives and where sin is somehow innocent ... the result is unforgettable." - Robert Cormier

This is the third book I've read by her and I am a fan (the other two were Surrender and Thursday's Child, both five stars). This was the saddest of the three. You hope things end well for the Willows... My god, how you hope things end well for these Willow kids. Sonya gives you a little glimpse of hope to then completely crush it (at least she did for me). It's a story about the dangers of family ideology, of being locked away from the world... which ends tragically. My poor heart...