Review: THE STORY OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2012
If you check the cover of the book you might think you are getting a lighthearted chick lit romance. Well you would be wrong, the synopsis is very cleverly worded IMO. it does not tell you much at all except that a woman is going back home. Then realising that home is where the heart is. Yeah right.For the most part this story is retrospective. Reece has not been home for twenty years, but a call from a long lost friend informing Reece of her grandmothers death, prompts her return.When Reece was born she was given by her mother to her sister to raise, as she was unmarried with no way of caring for a baby. She might as well just put her in a cage with a pack of rabid dogs. Reece's adoptive parents were trapped in an unhappy marriage, her two brothers who resented her presence made her life hell. Her grandmother whose nickname was "malice" was a bitter twisted shell of a woman. Reece had been married to a wonderful man named Taylor but she had managed to ruin that, it was always doomed she just never realised until it was over. Some of the incidents that are related in this story from Reece's past are at best depressing at worst harrowing. It isn't that this is a badly written book, it's not. But it's here masquerading as a romance, when it's not there is not one ounce of romance in this at all. To say that this is not my cup of tea might be understating things. Maybe other readers might appreciate this, I just could not.