I loved reading this book. It’s a very well told story, innocuous you may think, but it packs a bunch once the truth is revealed…Kind of creepy without being frightening. It has a Gothic house, family tensions and a narrator who you realise eventually, is unreliable. Vivien and Ginny are two sisters reunited after decades apart. They both have secrets that need revealing. Ginny tells most of the story. She’s a moth expert who has lived all her life in the old family mansion. She basically hides away in the attic where she plies her moth trade.Vivien bursts onto the scene. She hasn’t been back to the house in fifty years and wants to spent the rest of her life with her sister. There are clashes and glimpses of a sinister childhood. The atmosphere tenses and things begin to unravel as we try and put the puzzle together. Ginny kept secret their mother’s alcoholism and violence. Vivien secretly believes she knows the real manner of her mother’s death…As the sisters tussle with the unraveling of their family’s story we are drawn in and at the climactic point in the story we begin to question the veracity of the narrator we’ve come to believe. What a great read!The Behaviour of Moths This book was so horrendously edited that it often detracted from the story. Missing punctuation, words in the wrong places...there were at least two occasions where the book said "the it," where just "it" would do. Furthermore, I was waiting and waiting for the big reveal. What's wrong with Ginny? What are all the secrets this family is keeping?ADAMS NEVER EXPLAINS. There is no big reveal. Who knows what's wrong with Ginny? Adams certainly won't tell you. Between the unedited nature of the book and the fact that its whole journey is pointless, I feel like any enjoyment I might have gotten from its otherwise interesting premise and style was mitigated.
What do You think about The Behaviour Of Moths (2008)?
This novel should be titled not The Sister, but Everything I Didn't Know I Didn't Know About Moths.
—Liana
