Did you sympathize more with Rachel or with Drew? Do you think one had a more difficult time growing up in the Snow household?
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I sympathize a tiny bit more with Rachel, as I feel her suffering an injury and then her father turning away from her and her subsequent downfall was more drastic than Drew's storyline. Both sister's had a pretty lousy set of parents and because Rachel was kicked out of the house they didn't even have each other to rely on.
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I agree with others who said that the author developed the characters and explained the history in such a way that the reader would sympathize with both Rachel and Drew. They were very different and the family's dysfunction affected them in different ways, but it seemed to affect them to a similar degree. I also agree with rebajane that there were times when I didn't feel much sympathy for either of them.
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Initially I was more sympathetic to Drew as her situation seemed a bit more dire than Rachel's. And Rachel's super mom thing was a bit much though understandable after what her father had done to her. As the story progressed it became obvious that both of them had issues and when they sort of joined up in trying to figure out their mom's story and deal with their dad I did feel for both of them.
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I felt for both girls equally. Each suffered in her own way from the ugliness of the father and the seeming uncaring of the mother. They each tried to find their own way, rebellion or music, sometimes each other but with no understanding of how to connect.
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Initially, I felt sympathy with Rachel because her father disowned her as a teen, but I think Drew actually suffered more. Rachel became stronger because of that and had the love of her husband, and children. Drew appeared to be just coasting along with her life, with little confidence in her abilities.
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I don't think I sympathized with either one. Rachel was just a kid and put in a very bad situation. She chose to make a better life for herself and managed to have a great family in spite of what her father did to her. Drew chose to let life happen to her until she finally met someone worth working for and turning away from her father. He is a truly evil man.
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I liked both Drew and Rachel. They were both very different and so they tried to figure things out in their own way. They had no guidance. They had to deal with a terrible father and their mother was afraid to asset herself on her behalf or on theirs.
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Rachel was very uptight. I would have liked to have known more about her life after being banished from her home at such a young age. The fact that she got pregnant at such a young age and wound up married in a stable home is remarkable but how did she get there. In some ways Drew was more sympathetic than rachel but in reality she was a train wreck
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