Spoiler! Coming from a broken home I was able to relate to this book. My heart hurt for Adrienne as all she wanted was to be loved by her mother. But at what cost?

This book is about a mother/Malabar who needs a friend more then a daughter. She tells her daughter her upmost secrets at the tender age of 14. Adrienne is as any 14 year old girl, wanting the attention and close relationship this has given her. However Adrienne has a hard time breaking away from her mother, even into her 30's. This cost of this relationship is more then Adrienne could ever have imagined.

This was not an easy read for me as I come from a home of abuse, physical and mental. This poor girl could not be a child because her mother took that away from her so she could talk to her about her lover. Each time Adrienne tried to pull away, to have a normal relationship Malabar would get upset with her. She would act like the one wounded. Adrienne would have to comfort her rather then be the one comforted as it should have been. In a result she had bad relationships after bad relationship. Thankfully she found someone to ground her and help pull her out of making the same mistakes as her mother.

Overall I enjoyed the book and it was nice to see Adrienne find happiness within making her own family and finding someone to truly love her unconditionally.