God the Mother Pissed Me Off

I'm so heavily bothered by the mother in this book. You're a mother; don't burden your child with your affair. Also how did taking the secret to the grave go? You wrote a book about your mother's affair. Although I do have to say that this probably helped her healing process. I also feel like Malabar was so selfish. She asked Adrienne to lie to everyone. Also what did she decide to keep her name and her parents' names the same, but changed her brother's name? What's the point of that? I ended up grinding my teeth through most of this book and found myself hating Malabar. Can you hate someone you don't know? Fine, strongly disliking Malabar. Charles and Lily didn't deserve that. Something that is painful is how bad Adrienne wanted her mother's love, praise and attention. In reality it is extremely toxic. I'm honestly just so pissed that Malabar got what she wanted (Ben) and dropped Adrienne. I'm just so thankful that Adrienne broke the unhealthy cycle.