Love & Other Demons is Depressing

The fact that the novel is created around a child is what immediately entices my interest as a reader. Most people do not want to see something inocent tampered with. Not only does the child Sierva get infected with rabies but she is taken care of more as an obligation to her parents instead of wanting to. She is neglected and hated by her parents for reasons that are not her fault. Her copper hair has yet to play any significance in the plot of the story. As a reader I am always in hope for the ideal. The ideal of a happy family in which the child is nurtured and loved. Instead at this given moment in the novel, Sierva receives more attention from black slaves over her own blood parents. They are supposed to be a family of royalty yet they are not a family at all. Merely people living together in the same household.