Ugh! (Not a good way to start my most recent read, huh?) I don't know what it is with my picks lately but I'm just not feeling the woe-is-me characters that seem to be inhabiting every book I pick. Seriously, could we have some upbeat likable characters please!?
So here's the synopsis of my latest: In 1978, Hope Jones, a Nebraskan mother with MS is swept away by a tornado, never to be seen again. She leaves behind Larken, Gaelen and Bonnie as well as her physician (not DOCTOR!!!) husband Llewellyn. Fast forward to 2003 when Llewellyn is struck and killed by lightening while the dumb ass is golfing during a ginormous thunderstorm. In the aftermath, the three "children" return home for the week-long funeral "celebration". Larken is now a 178 lb. professor of art who uses food as her "everything" - her only real relationship is with a 3-year old; Gaelen is a sex addict/weatherman (not meteorologist) who can't commit; Bonnie is a 31-year-old, spinster who lives in a converted garage/shack and makes her living blending smoothies in her spare time while the majority of her time is spent obsessively collecting garbage found on the side of the road that she believes are remnants from her mothers life.
From that, you may wonder why I would pick this up in the first place. Well, I had read this author before (Broken For you) and really enjoyed. I should say she's a good writer but I guess I've just had it up to here with characters who have no redeemable qualities. The only part of the book I really enjoyed was the diary portions of Hope's. The only reason I continued reading to the end was to find out what the big secret was that being kept. I wouldn't recommend this book but maybe that's just me. I feel like reading a sure thing now...either the 7th Harry Potter (for the 3rd time) or Breaking Dawn (the last in the Twilight series). We'll see.
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