I have to say, what a let down after reading Goodnight June... While the writing was excellent as is normally the case, I just could not connect as much to the characters as I did in Goodnight June. Maybe it's because that was about books, but I just couldn't relate as much. Plus I'm not a huge fan of magical/having abilities type stories. So while, I enjoyed the stories and how they were all connected in some way, it just wasn't what I felt as well done as Goodnight June or The Bungalow. 
 The other thing was that it was kind of weird that her father's leaving was such an instrumental part of her childhood (and the after affects), that for (view spoiler)[ his coming back to be such a blip in the story, was really a let down. I wish the author would have done more with that other than a mention of him coming into the story year after year and then once later saying she and her brother had dinner with him. Just didn't really make sense (hide spoiler)].