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Gr 9-Up This novel mixes themes of betrayal, independence, and psychological manipulation with recognizable ancient Greek myths in a modern-day setting. A conniving psychologist pits two gifted, home-schooled siblings against one another, the narcissist Ivan and younger, more vulnerable Hilly (likened to Persephone). In alternating chapters, carefully paced to escalate the tension, each one tells about the assaults on their...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Precocious and home-schooled, Hilly and her older brother Ivan have always been inseparable — living as much inside each other's heads as inside their own. But while Ivan finds this existence affirming, Hilly finds it stifling. After a friend's suicide, she is unwillingly shuttled into therapy with the predatory Dr. Roland ("Imagine a monster seeing you naked"), who pits her against Ivan in an escalating three-way power struggle for ownership of her creative mind — which Ivan has always ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More