Review: I kept hoping it would get better...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2013
The characters seemed well developed, some more so than others, but the plot meandered into a boring nothingness.  Even when exciting things were happening, such as a missing neighborhood child, it feels as though the family is not really properly shocked when the perpetrator is discovered.I wanted it to get better because I did like the characters, but they led dull lives, and this is their resultant story.  How it is possible to make a snoozer of a book about a family of six sisters, their mother, two of their husbands, a pre-teen, a bed ridden uncle, and their two African American maids, in the south during WWII is beyond me.  The author even threw in a possible "negro uprising", and an escaped German POW, but I still kept looking for more.