Really messed up. Why on earth did the families not do something. Don't tell me they didn't suspect something. Really disgusting. Typical, don't get involved and turn their eyes away. Even the grandmother. She should have spoken up louder. I get why the girls didn't. They grew up in it all and it may be difficult for some to understand, I get it. Your norm is your norm. You don't know any better, but the families.

Where was the rest of Shane's family? Why didn't they care? Even Laura the grandmother should have done something more. Every single person in his family should have done something? He was a KID! A kid who everyone failed. Cathy's family and Ron's. There should have been more concern where they were. Who just turns their back on a family member and takes a stranger's word as truth? The cops doing nothing when finally someone says something. The grandmother not fighting harder knowing her youngest granddaughter still lived in that house of horrors. KNOWING the child's parents had killed someone. Appalling. So hard to grasp.

Hard to read, on so many levels.

It is hard to swallow what some humans are given out of life. Shane and Cathy had miserable lives and then came to have even worse lives--. It is even harder to realize there are some people who will be failed by everyone in their life who should be protecting them. These victims really didn't have anyone to protect them. No one cared. Not one person cared. So terribly sad. I hope the sisters really are happy now. After reading this book, that isn't always a given... a happy ending.