It alternates each chapter, which may not be every reader’s cup of tea, but I believe this method did an excellent job of building suspense. The book jumps from the present, 16 years after Saskia left Home, to the past while she lived there. We follow the story of Saskia, who spent some time in a cult called Home as a teenager. I really enjoy books about cults, and Fierce Little Thing was no exception. Issy and Sekou move into Saskia’s grandmother’s house with her. Saskia did it to protect her mother from her father’s abuse she knew her father would go to prison if Will died. I suspected this was the big buildup, since it didn’t make sense how else the father would get up to the roof to kill the boy when he and the mother were arguing on the first floor. Saskia had killed Will and blamed her father. Abraham was still alive, and wanted them to kill him. Marta had stomach cancer and was dying, but Abraham convinced them to kill her faster to get the inheritance to save Home (Abraham was Marta’s son). The big secret was that Saskia and her friends had killed Marta.
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