Perfect Little World

This book was disappointing. There was a pretty obvious theme floating throughout the book that Wilson refused to address: Izzy's relationships with father figures. Izzy has not one but two problematic relationships with older men and the fact that these relationships are problematic (one of which is criminal) is not addressed at all. I think the book could have been really interesting if it had delved deeper into those relationships and paralleled them to her relationship to her father but unfortunately we never got any of that. Also I thought this book was going to be way more culty than it turned out to be. Again, very disappointed. 

Also Wilson sort of touches on how this upbringing could actually be bad for the kids which too would have been really interesting. But then it's never addressed either! This book had no real conflict or nothing interesting to say. I would not recommend it to anyone tbh because there's no actual substance here. It's just a thing that happened. If a lit professor were teaching this book they'd have nothing to lecture on!