Nora and David's parents do end up pretty bad. I'd also give Loren some mention. She loses her son, and when she finally reunited with him finds out he's a bird. Then after that his girlfriend dies and he leaves her to live in Yellowstone or whatever.
True, but I always got the impression that Loren had never felt terribly attached to Tobias. Aside from the time she save his life, she never really acted like a mother to him.
Then again, given the fact that that was probably
because she lost her memory of everything she ever cared about, her life still sucked pretty hard.
Has Melissa been mentioned yet? Even after going through this big emotional episode in book #2 about how her parents didn't love her anymore, all she ever got in the way of closure was "Oh, they love you more than you could ever know." To which she was almost certainly like, "WTF is that supposed to mean?"
I'm sure she had a better time of it after the war, though. Then her parents could finally explain what had happened.