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 OMG I don't know where to start with this book review! First of all I just couldn't believe how much Maya, Lochan, Kit, Tiffan and Willa had to go through at such young ages. It was horrible reading about their alcoholic mother who constantly neglected them and didn't give a damn about what happened to them, which made me so angry at her and I realised just how lucky I am to have a caring and loving mother. Just reading both Lochie and Maya's point of views made me really know them as a character and it just made me want to help them in every way I could. 
 At first when I was reading about the growing attraction and love between Lochie and Maya, I felt confused between my beliefs of incest being wrong and the relationship I was reading about. It was so hard to believe Lochie and Maya were brother and sister because they had such a strong bond of love and relied on each other when they had no one else to turn to. I thought they both were the mother and father figures of their siblings, who took care of the them like parebts would instead of being their brother and sister. 
 It totally broke my heart at the end when Lochie and Maya were caught by their mother, and Lochie told Maya to tell the police he raped her. When Lochie found out Maya told the police she consented to having sex with him and when Lochie realised he should of listened to Maya and escaped before the police came, he was planning to make a rope to climb out of prison to find Maya to get her to say he raped her. When he was about to escape, I was so shocked when he committed suicide instead, so Maya wouldn't go to prison and the children wouldn't be spilt up and taken away. Although I new Lochie suffered from depression, I didn't think he would actually kill himself it was so unexpected because I thought he really was going to escape prison not to escape the world of the living. I usually don't cry when reading books, but I couldn't stop crying it was so upsetting to read Lochie sacrifice his life for his brothers and sisters when he could have gotten help from his English teacher or even the nurse. His teacher was willing to help and I was angry at him for taking his life even though he had been through so much he could of stayed alive! argghh I hated this ending!! Before Lochie's funeral Maya wanted to kill herself too and I thought she was going to go through with it, but thank God she realised her brothers and sister would be devasted if she was gone too. She ended up keeping her promise to Lochie by continuing to wear her bracelet Lochie gave her for christmas. Oh and I couldn't believe it when their mum wasn't going to be attending her own son's funeral!! I know she was sickened by what Lochie did but she could have at least went to pay her respects. She has got to be the worst mother ever! 
 I was hoping Lochie and Maya could get help from their teachers or confide in someone about their problems at home, and I thought the ending would be that all the children went to a loving foster family who would treat them well, but that didn't happen. I hope their mum got charged with childhood neglection and that Maya, Kit, Tiffen and Willa eventually got help and went to a caring family. 
 So after reading this book I would have to say it is one of the best I have read and the way the author wrote it made the love between Lochie and Maya so believable and real. I really wished they could have had a life together but I guess it was just to much for poor Lochan.