[MPOV] The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 2

My rating: 3/5

Goodreads rating: 4/5
Published: December 2nd, 2022
Author: Sophia Lambton
Genre: family fiction, drama, saga

Mind the gap between youth’s pedestal and looming adulthood.

Two years have passed since Anneliese and Isabel braved the bombardment of the Blitz. Risks are resumed and revelations rattle as the past begins to rear its ugly head. Suffering sends Isabel on downward spirals; Anneliese falls victim to society’s expectations. Skeletons come tumbling from Susanna’s closet and for some the sex-and-death divide grows thinner.

Spying on the escapades of the sororal van der Holts, The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 2 invites you to encounter more of Anneliese and Isabel than they know of themselves. Self-recognition is discomfiting.

And we have only just begun.

Thank you to the author again for this e-ARC in return for my honest review. After reading volume 1, I did have high expectations in what volume 2 entails. Similarly, the second novel of Barbara Taylor Bradford's Emma Harte Saga, Hold the Dream, wasn't as enthralling as the first. I think I should not set any expectations when reading series as it had me wanting and expecting more.

Volume 2 continues where it left off about 2 girls becoming women, twins who were born a week apart. Their struggle into womanhood with each sister defying another and their ensuing gap between their relationship... their sisterhood... becoming more apparent. As when Isabel's marriage ended with Anneliese's marriage started to distant, the sisters grew closer. Yet when Isabel's career started to pick up where Anneliese's becoming stagnant, Anneliese started to feel envious of Isabel. TBH, I am rooting for Benjamin, Anneliese's good friend, if he will have a chance in the end. 

Such is sibling rivalry which I've enjoyed and yet I did find it slow this time around. Somehow, I have gotten more anxious, keeps flipping and wanting to know how it turns out. Isabel having gone through abusive marriage, stillbirth and then able to soar as a music teacher was really a nice touch. Anneliese, however, worked hard to be a psychiatrist, gotten married and yet feeling envious of her sister.... and then, there is volume 3! LOL! I can't wait for it!