As promised I’m adding a star for Japanese Knotweed! No seriously the book showed a lot of promise. There were several lines throughout i found elegant, poignant, and meaningful. I’m also very happy with the way it is structured, focusing on the siblings as survivors more than victims. We meet each one individually as Lex, Girl A, meets with them is her role as executor of their mothers will, the events of their childhood are sprinkled through the stories of their struggle to live life afterward, preventing any one chapter from being bogged down in trigger inducing descriptions. And yet I don’t think I can say I liked the book that much. One reveal later in the book felt entirely unnecessary, at least two others were teased but didn’t meet the expectations I had, and a few aspects of the main characters life never felt fully developed or used as well as they could have been. So the book was fine. Better than I expected. But I’m a bit disappointed by it.