“The one thing she knows for sure is what makes a family isn’t blood. And it isn’t love. No matter how they’re formed, the truth about family is this: it’s complicated.”
If I liked the beginning and I loved the ending but thought the middle rambled and needed focus where does that leave this review? Three stars?
I appreciated the discussions around family and adoption, basically the entire ending but how the story got there was almost a DNF for me. And ultimately, the main character felt very inauthentic which is interesting because I think her “uniqueness” was an attempt to make her seem authentic
Super Brief Summary A story about adoption and family and the complexities of life.
I absolutely loved Frankel’s novel This Is How it Always Is, it was a previous # in fact so this one had some big shoes to fill, but overall Family Family left me underwhelmed.
Family Family is out today! Thank you @net for this copy in exchange for my honest review.
If a book is meh for 80% but has a banging ending does that alter your rating??
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