Whistling in the Dark

The stepfather, Hall, in this book is really getting on my nerves! He is such a jerk! He's a drunken fool that hits his kids (Sally, Troo, and Nell), that aren't even his kids! Above all that, he has a 'mother' tattoo on his arm. Mama's boy. Ew. He even started to yell her name when he fell over drunk after hitting Troo! This guy screams pompous idiot. Also, the girls' mother has been in the hospital for a couple days now, so the girls have to watched by Hall. It is a horrible situation altogether. Another thing that's going on in the book right now is that the oldest sister, Nell, has to cook dinner for all of them, and since Hall is spending all the grocery money on beer, there isn't much food to cook with. All in all, I don't think it's going to end well for these little girls.