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I could not finish this terrible tale of terrible people. It is disturbing and as entertaining as a bag of vomit. I shelved the book at 45% to get my mind off dysfunctional, sadistic Shelly and her family. Read about someone normal, even someone semi-normal. But upon picking it back up, I threw in the towel at 55%. I couldn’t take it anymore. I also am not sure of how much truth is in this story. I find it hard to believe that no one noticed. Not at school, not at work. If they were that beaten up that badly, someone would have noticed. The girls, the grandmother, the weak, nauseating husband. Someone. Nikki, Shane, and even Kathy, never did anything to stop the horrid abuse. They are complicit to much of what happened. Besides the subject matter, Olsen missed the mark badly with the written word. The story rambles, is confusing, even boring. The first 200 pages could be summed up by simply stating, ‘Shelley was a very bad, sick, psychotic person.’ That’s all that is in those pages, repeated endlessly. Stupid, irresponsible people all around. I need a shower.