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A review by lauriereadslohf
The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
3.0
The Wrong Family is one of those books where everyone has a secret. That’s the kind of book my nosy self eats up. So you have a secret? He has a secret? Oh, that strange lady has a secret too? Oh noooo, now I NEED to know what everyone is hiding and I will keep reading to the very end to find out no matter what - even if I end up disappointed in the time it takes to get to the secrets or in the secrets themselves. It’s kind of a curse with me.
So this one was a decently entertaining read for me and I’d read this author again. I enjoyed the strange setup with the house and the old lady but the middle started to lag a bit and I got a little bored. It was all the mundane drama bits here that were a little tiresome for my personal tastes and then the end was a bit of a whole wild rushed mess that didn’t really sit right with me but I can’t go into it without spoiling things. The biggest secret wasn’t what I thought it was going to be and I love it when a book proves to me that I have no idea what’s going on sometimes.
I’m not even going to tell you what it’s about because there’s a blurb and because, IMO, you shouldn’t know anything but the fact that there are SECRETS (some of them ridiculously dramatic) to be had and that the book is filled with terrible people doing the terrible things that terrible people do. I couldn’t stand any of them by the end except maybe the too nosy for her own good old woman and the poor kid stuck in this mess but that’s truly the fun of these books, haha.
Anyhow, if you love these sorts of books you’re likely going to like this one. Maybe you’ll even love it. I recommend the audio, the narrator did a great job.
So this one was a decently entertaining read for me and I’d read this author again. I enjoyed the strange setup with the house and the old lady but the middle started to lag a bit and I got a little bored. It was all the mundane drama bits here that were a little tiresome for my personal tastes and then the end was a bit of a whole wild rushed mess that didn’t really sit right with me but I can’t go into it without spoiling things. The biggest secret wasn’t what I thought it was going to be and I love it when a book proves to me that I have no idea what’s going on sometimes.
I’m not even going to tell you what it’s about because there’s a blurb and because, IMO, you shouldn’t know anything but the fact that there are SECRETS (some of them ridiculously dramatic) to be had and that the book is filled with terrible people doing the terrible things that terrible people do. I couldn’t stand any of them by the end except maybe the too nosy for her own good old woman and the poor kid stuck in this mess but that’s truly the fun of these books, haha.
Anyhow, if you love these sorts of books you’re likely going to like this one. Maybe you’ll even love it. I recommend the audio, the narrator did a great job.