A Sister's Story of Love, Murder and Liberation
by Janine Latus
The true story of two sisters who grow up in a dysfunctional family and later fall in love with abusive men. Janine and Amy Latus both led very difficult lives, surviving childhood with their creepy father who was insulting, embarrassing and sexually inappropriate. Janine flees their home before she even graduates high school, only to be attacked and raped by a stranger in her apartment and later badly beaten by her own boyfriend. She and her husband Kurt endure a rocky, abusive, love-hate relationship for many years. Amy survives financial ruin, an abusive and alcoholic husband, weight problems and cancer before she falls completely in love with a man that she met online, allowing him to move into her home and loaning him thousands and thousands of dollars. A few days after Janine finally finds the strength to break up with her husband, Amy is reported missing and Janine is sure the boyfriend is responsible.
This book was not at all what I expected and reading it was kind of like driving past an automobile accident that you don't want to look at; I hated reading it yet I wanted to know what happened. It starts very slowly with early childhood and just took forever to get to the main plot of the book. Its a depressing book to read in that just when you think things can't get much worse, they do, over and over and over. On the bright side, this book will make you feel like your life is a bowl of cherries compared to the Latus sisters. A sad tale about the tremendous lengths that some women will go to in search of love.
No comments:
Post a Comment