The sisters

Again, I couldn't decide whether this was some target toward women, but I found it difficult to see Anna and Sadie as sisters -- they really seemed more like rivals, even without the rivalries over Jake and Hugo. (Jake being more so, I think, a rivalry they could pick up at any time but wasn't missed unless he forced himself into their lives again, as he did.) Anyway, I think there was some absence of affection, or because Jake viewed them as objects of desire, it might not have been something he could have provided as their narrator.

Did you find any more redeeming or deeper qualities in either sister, as Jake eventually did with Sadie?