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A review by unabridgedchick
The Family Plot by Megan Collins
3.0
I'm truly ambivalent about this one! On one hand, I loved the idea of someone so true crime obsessed they raised their family to be mired in it, and all that comes with that. On the other hand, the ending was so unsatisfying, it almost untied everything I enjoyed about the book.
I liked our POV character Dahlia, although there was so much more I wanted to know about her life growing up in this bonkers family -- but the plot goes from wow, okay to WHAT in about 10 pages. Which isn't a bad thing, thrillers gonna thrill and all that, but there is a lot of explaining and summarizing. And the deep love the siblings have for each other was kind of baffling but thank all the deities, was not gross affection/love. Just normal love expressed normally, just intensely.
The ending pissed me off because it involved choices I would not make AND did not feel very satisfactory given all the building up of feelings and stuff.
I liked our POV character Dahlia, although there was so much more I wanted to know about her life growing up in this bonkers family -- but the plot goes from wow, okay to WHAT in about 10 pages. Which isn't a bad thing, thrillers gonna thrill and all that, but there is a lot of explaining and summarizing. And the deep love the siblings have for each other was kind of baffling but thank all the deities, was not gross affection/love. Just normal love expressed normally, just intensely.
The ending pissed me off because it involved choices I would not make AND did not feel very satisfactory given all the building up of feelings and stuff.