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stlkatiek's review
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.0
This story featured four sisters and their widowed mother who inherit the (bankrupt ) family pest control business. The book takes place in 2008-2009 amid the start of the great recession and Obama's election and taps in to rural/red state anxiety, doomsday preppers, and small town life in general.
It was a bit slow to start (each chapter is told from the perspective of either the mother or one of the daughters) and the end was entirely too happily-ever-after, but it was a good-enough story about family and sisterhood.
Decided to read because:
This was my first book (either by a Missouri author or set in Missouri) for the library's Missouri Bicentennial Challenge. It was set in Cape Girardeau, where some of my family lives.
Reminded me of:
It was a bit slow to start (each chapter is told from the perspective of either the mother or one of the daughters) and the end was entirely too happily-ever-after, but it was a good-enough story about family and sisterhood.
Decided to read because:
This was my first book (either by a Missouri author or set in Missouri) for the library's Missouri Bicentennial Challenge. It was set in Cape Girardeau, where some of my family lives.
Reminded me of:
- A lesser Daughters of Erietown or Baker Towers
Content Warnings
Moderate: Self harm
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