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The Second Home by Christina Clancy
4.0

There should be a genre that singles out east coast vacation home or coastal small town family drama books. Either there are enough for it to be considered a genre of its own, or I just seem to be drawn to them! (And I really don't recall any west coast version.) Now that I have that off my chest.....

I loved the characters in this story! No one, with one exception, is completely good or completely evil. And even that person probably had some redeeming qualities but they were under the shadow of misdeeds. It is in those ambiguous spaces or personality that the momentum for this story lives. The underlying theme of this story is family. They are the ones that can hold us together or tear us apart. I loved the way Ms. Clancy expressed this throughout the timeline of the story and in how the characters changed are reacted to each other. So very enjoyable!

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for a copy of the book. This review is my own opinion.