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One of the things that stood out to me immediately was that the first and the last chapter were both called January Man. While this book was basically talking about Jason developing over the span of an entire year, those chapters were probably the most meaningful ones.  In the first Chapter Jason talked about a lot of different events happening and while a lot of them unfolded more with the months passing by, he didn’t discover his Dad’s deepest secret until 12 months later.  Jason's character had an amazing development over the span of 365 days and while that is a normal age to go through changes, his personality developed impressively. In the first chapter Jason had this interaction at night with this elderly woman because he sprained his ankle on the lake, while he was skating. Somehow over the next 11 Chapters we didn’t get more information about the strange happenings during that night, but in the last Chapter Jason found the courage to go back into the forest and face th...

W as Bruce the perfect father? No, definitely not, but there were those moments throughout the book where Alison and him had this good connection. At various points during the book it seemed like Alison and Bruce had a normal father-daughter-relationship, but is that enough to call it a good relationship? Or did Bruce even put in all of his effort to make their relationship the best it can be? I think the first pages of the book were making me hopeful that it is a story of a daughter and her father with a happy ending. How Alison described them playing together. Bruce appeared like a good father to me and I could not have known how big his secret is. After Alison talked about her experience growing up with a Dad who always wants her to dress in pink dresses and wants her to live in a pink room, I just thought he didn’t want his daughter to turn out in a way that is not stereotypical for this time and I would have not expected that he was trying to live through her.  A secret as big...