by titania123
Those horrible people. I felt Alessa's pain. We all have dysfunctional families but the (I am assuming) step mother and grandmother are just nasty.
My mom always gave my daughter books for her birthday. My mother-in-law gave perfume, nail polish and makeup to my daughter, I'm talking when she was 3 or 4. MIL would refer to my mom as the book grandmother as if it were a bad thing. My now 19 yr old is an avid reader.
So good for Aleesa for giving her sister the gift of reading.
... is building here. I'm looking forward to the next chapter. There's something that can be done about Shelly and Grandma. To borrow from Dickens, it's called reducing the surplus population.
I'm so enthralled with your writing! I can't wait for the next chapter! You're definitely one of my favorite authors on Lit. Keep it up! :)
I love your characters. Alessa is such an engaging protagonist.
The port-rail of the stepmother and grandmother is childish.
Aaand that’s 2 more characters I dislike intensely. If this ends happily it’ll be a machine gun slaughter of everyone in this story except Alessa, Lou & Cadence. And I’m only putting Lou in there because she’s nice, and a Brit that says schedule correctly.