Mahala's Reviews > Little Altars Everywhere

** spoiler alert ** Awful, awful book! I loved 'Divine Secrets' years ago and recently reread it to find it was better than I remembered. So I read 'Little Altars' for the first time and it ruined this storyline for me. Namely, Vivi Dahlin, the mother you love to hate. I had some empathy for her in Divine Secrets, but in Little Altars, you discover she's a monster of a child abuser. I liked her better when I thought she really only had one bad episode with her children. And honestly, it was unbelievable for the Vivi character for the author to take it this far. Why do modern day authors think they need to put in some seriously sick sh$t for someone to read their books? It was totally unnecessary.