We Are the Brennans follows Denny, eldest brother of the wealthy Brennan family/bar owner, and Sunday, the seemingly perfect sister who abandoned the family five years ago as well as the rest of their family. Denny goes to LA to take care of Sunday after she drives drunk and crashes her car one night. He urges Sunday to come home, and she agrees. Her return to New York uproots the Brennans, and family secrets both past and present come to light.
With such a large cast of characters, you'd think I'd find one I liked. In truth, I found it really hard to root for anyone despite having a similar family-first kind of family myself. The problem is these characters just aren't very relatable. I don't belong to a rich family. I don't own a bar. I didn't keep secrets from my whole family. The more this novel wore on, the less I liked these characters. Some of them were even so cliched it was painful.
I listened to the audiobook of this. The narrator Barrie Kreinik did a great job. I loved her Irish accents. Even though the male voices, namely Denny and Kale, sounded so similar at times, I enjoyed it nonetheless.
With such a large cast of characters, you'd think I'd find one I liked. In truth, I found it really hard to root for anyone despite having a similar family-first kind of family myself. The problem is these characters just aren't very relatable. I don't belong to a rich family. I don't own a bar. I didn't keep secrets from my whole family. The more this novel wore on, the less I liked these characters. Some of them were even so cliched it was painful.
I listened to the audiobook of this. The narrator Barrie Kreinik did a great job. I loved her Irish accents. Even though the male voices, namely Denny and Kale, sounded so similar at times, I enjoyed it nonetheless.