Thanks to Bookishfirst, the publisher and the author for this ARC.
I usually like family books and this is why I claimed this book and I don't usually have problems remembering a lot of characters either and I've read many books like this with even more family names. For the first 30 pages or so, I kept referring back and forth to the prologue, where the cousins names were (only 4 for that matter which shouldn't be a problem even for me) and then to the siblings names also in the beginning of the book and then who were their parents, or mother in Wilma's case and Carol Anne had no kids. JJ had 2. Shouldn't be too hard to keep track right? For some reason, it was for me.
The plot wasn't just about the cousins but also focused on the siblings when the family was back in a small town in GA for the patriarch's funeral which was a shock in itself. Their lives were varied.
This might be the first family book that I really didn't enjoy as much as I would have liked and they really weren't that dysfunctional or were they as I read on sort of.
It wasn't a slow book per se, but I kept picking it up and putting it down like maybe it wasn't interesting enough to continue.
However, I finished it. I enjoyed the second half of the book much more than the first.
I usually like family books and this is why I claimed this book and I don't usually have problems remembering a lot of characters either and I've read many books like this with even more family names. For the first 30 pages or so, I kept referring back and forth to the prologue, where the cousins names were (only 4 for that matter which shouldn't be a problem even for me) and then to the siblings names also in the beginning of the book and then who were their parents, or mother in Wilma's case and Carol Anne had no kids. JJ had 2. Shouldn't be too hard to keep track right? For some reason, it was for me.
The plot wasn't just about the cousins but also focused on the siblings when the family was back in a small town in GA for the patriarch's funeral which was a shock in itself. Their lives were varied.
This might be the first family book that I really didn't enjoy as much as I would have liked and they really weren't that dysfunctional or were they as I read on sort of.
It wasn't a slow book per se, but I kept picking it up and putting it down like maybe it wasn't interesting enough to continue.
However, I finished it. I enjoyed the second half of the book much more than the first.