I love this book because it gives us such great insight into Janine, but at the same time, I get so angry when I reread this book, because Claudia was such a monumental bitch to her sister the entire time. Nevertheless, I am always a little surprised when I read that scene where Claudia almost slaps her in front of Jamie Newton o.O

I thought the parallel stories between the Newton siblings and the Kishi siblings was well-done. I wish we'd had a bit more of the playgroup subplot, but I guess after the B-story of the previous book it would've been a little much...though Karen really doesn't come out any better for it. Bleh.

With hindsight, this is also a sad book, considering it's pretty much the beginning of the end for Mimi :-/ which is very difficult to read.