Alex Marwood
Autor de The Wicked Girls
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(eng) Serena Mackesy also writes as Alex Marwood.
Créditos de la imagen: Little Brown Book Group
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- Mackesy, Serena
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- UK
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- journalist
novelist - Relaciones
- Kennedy, Margaret (grandmother)
- Aviso de desambiguación
- Serena Mackesy also writes as Alex Marwood.
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A Doomsday cult in Snowdonia drinks the koolaid - literally. By time the police have been called to their compound by concerned neighbours, all but a few cult member are long dead, lying on the streets of the commune, swarming with flies. Only Romy, aged 18 and pregnant, and her two young half-siblings, Ilo and Eden, have survived the horror. Ilo and Eden are sent to live with their aunt near Bristol; Romy is sent to hospital and then to a mental institution. None of the three are normal after years of brainwashing - their belief that the world is going to end and their predilection for violence are still intact, making their integration into the "real world" or school and shops and interpersonal relationships an absolute disaster.
My reservations about the book are that I don't understand what happened in the last few chapters. Without spoiling anything, events occurred whose significance I failed to comprehend, and the ending made no sense to me whatsoever. I went back, read carefully, tried to piece the endgame together, and failed to do so. I was disappointed, and felt very much as if I'd wasted my time with this book.… (más)