bookcrazyblogger 's review for:

The Second Home by Christina Clancy

4.0

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This is the family drama that I have been looking for all of my life. This novel intersects between the past and the present, telling the story of one family’s second home out on the Cape. Ann and Poppy are sisters who seem to have the idyllic family life: in fact, their family life looks so good from the outside, that they adopt Michael, a 16 year old whose desperate for a home. While Michael works on bonding with Ed, Poppy becomes involved with the surfing crowd and Ann becomes enamored with the nouveau-rich people she’s begun to nanny for. As the connections between family members begin to splinter, lies and scandals begin to filter through the cracks, creating a compelling novel as the estranged “siblings” come back together after their parents untimely death. I loved this book! It definitely has a bit of a taboo relationship which helped add to the plot line. I was definitely enjoying tracking the stories of all these characters. The dialogue could have been tightened up a little more or gone a little deeper in conversations.