The Wicked Sister

Well, I'm speechless, thrilled, and angry at the same time….

The whole story is based on a family where mom, Jenny, and Dad Peter had two daughters Rachel and Daina. First, they lived in a suburban area where peter worked as a researcher and Jenny was a stay home mom taking care of her first daughter Diana. One day they found out, their neighbor's toddler had fallen and drowned in their swimming pool and Jenny witnessed her daughter, pushed and murder the baby. Knowing this will be a bad situation for the family, they left the city and moved to their grandparent's log cabin in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

After finding Daina’s mental instability and what a difficult child she was, Jenny hoped that living in the wilderness would help Diana get better. But little did they know that she is a callous-unemotional child and a psychopath, that cannot be fixed.

After Jenny giving birth to her second daughter “Rachel” hoping the newborn will fix the issues with her Diana and make her a better person, the situation got worse and worse day by day.

I was initially intrigued by the synopsis and hoped to read a psychological thriller novel, but this story is more like a creepy psychological fairy tale. The whole story is in Rachels and Jenny’s POV and two different timelines described the event that happened in the past and the present.

This story has the same vibes of novels “Bad seed”,” Baby teeth” about the psychopath child hurting their loved ones. Also, I was able to see the twist coming from a mile away.

Also, This story has the worst parenting style I have ever encountered, where each one of them tries to protect their psychopath kid without taking precautions and getting the right medical treatment and let her hurt the others. Instead of sending her to a mental institution, they facilitate her to do the taxidermy, giving knives? seriously?

OH my lord, I cannot even believe that such parenting exists. The character Diana was just too much for me. I know this is a thriller and that she was meant to be the bad luck, but I just really did not like her, and reading her cruelty and neglect of human emotions crawls my skin.

Also, the story contains gruesome murders, animal cruelty, and disturbing child behaviors.

Overall, this is not an awful book, but it did make me very uncomfortable to read