Starting Over

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Tracey Lange is quickly becoming a master of messy family dynamics. In this story, the three adult Connelly siblings are all dealing with their own messes, many stemming from a childhood when oldest sibling Geraldine was essentially raising her younger siblings Eddie and Tara after their mother's death from cancer and their father's abandonment. Now Geraldine is dealing with hoarding, getting overwhelmed at work, and the consequences of never feeling like she could fail. Eddie is dealing with the physical toll of the traumatic brain injury he suffered when he was a child in a car accident with his father. And Tara is fresh out of jail for drug trafficking charges that are a result of her bete noire, trying to solve everyone's problems for them. And keeping a close eye on the siblings is Detective Brian Nolan, who is quickly falling for Tara and suspects there's more to her story than she's telling, and his uncle and partner Hank, who's ready to pull the trigger on Tara to get to drug dealer Roland Shea. This family has way more problems than the average one, but Lange does a great job of showing how in trying to protect each other, they also dig themselves deeper and create more problems - what they really need is to listen to each other and be a family unit that depends on each other. Both enjoyable for seeing the value of family, and for knowing that mine isn't this messed up - even if it isn't perfect! A complimentary copy of this book was provided by the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own.