mx_spine_breaker 's review for:

The In-Laws by Sinéad Moriarty

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Thank you to Sinéad Moriarty, Penguin UK and NetGalley for giving me access to this book in exchange for an honest review. 

 

This book feels like home. It’s almost strange how comforting it is. Like slipping into the rhythm of a familiar heartbeat. 

 

Sinéad Moriarty has this uncanny ability to write characters who feel like real people you’ve known all your life. There’s warmth, compassion, and something profoundly safe in their presence. 

 

That’s not to say the topics are easy, they’re not. Grief, self-harm, addiction, and emotional abuse (mostly off-page) all find a place in this story. But they’re handled with such grace and empathy that instead of overwhelming, they soothe. 

 

This isn’t just a book about in-laws. It’s a book about connection, redemption, and how family, the one we’re born into or the one we build, can carry us through the dark. 

 

Sinéad, you nailed this one!