It All Comes Down To This by Therese Anne Fowler is an interesting sisters story, but I can't recommend it. TW: parental death, infidelity.
The primary setting is Mount Desert Island in Maine (a new-to-me location) at the Geller family summer cottage. I appreciated the strong-willed characters of Marti Geller and her adult daughters Beck, Claire, and Sophie. Each had an interesting life, and it was refreshing to read about women who independently made major decisions for about their futures.
However, the "romance" was completely superfluous and distracting. It could have been completely eliminated and this would have been a better novel. And the ending wrapped up so abruptly I was sure I accidentally skipped several chapters of the audiobook while multitasking. It was like the author suddenly realized she only had X number of pages to complete the story and made a huge leap to the end. Very strange and unsatisfying.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the review copy of the audiobook narrated by Barrie Kreinik.
The primary setting is Mount Desert Island in Maine (a new-to-me location) at the Geller family summer cottage. I appreciated the strong-willed characters of Marti Geller and her adult daughters Beck, Claire, and Sophie. Each had an interesting life, and it was refreshing to read about women who independently made major decisions for about their futures.
However, the "romance" was completely superfluous and distracting. It could have been completely eliminated and this would have been a better novel. And the ending wrapped up so abruptly I was sure I accidentally skipped several chapters of the audiobook while multitasking. It was like the author suddenly realized she only had X number of pages to complete the story and made a huge leap to the end. Very strange and unsatisfying.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the review copy of the audiobook narrated by Barrie Kreinik.
