Rainbow Black

This absolutely would have been a five star read had it been about 100 pgs shorter. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed hearing about how they made it to Canada and the life they had built for themselves, but shorter.
Lacey Bond's parents are hippies who run a daycare center and who fall victim to the Satanic Panic of the 90's being accused of torturing and sexually abusing children under their care. This story belongs to Lacey and her friend, Dylan. This is the fallout for children mixed up in a world in which the adults have gone off the rails.
I almost DNF'd when we met Lacey's sister, Eclair (I kid you not) but I loved Honor Girl and wanted to tough this out. Then I fell in love with the story. I was completely onboard until the last couple of hundred pages. At that point, I thought the story had just gone on too long.
I don't understand the character of Gwen. I understand the trauma, I understand the background, I just wonder because her behavior is very strange and very immature. The scene, for example, in which Gwen meets Lacey's mother at the door and takes the jar of honey that has been brought as a housewarming gift and proceeds to smear it across her own face. Strange, strange behavior.
I still recommend this highly. The main story is fantastic and I really did enjoy the peek into the gay rights movement in Montreal. I was just exhausted by the time it wrapped up.