A review by littletaiko
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin

2.0

Four siblings have their childhood upended when their father dies and their mother who can't cope hides in her bedroom for a year or so. They are resilient though and manage to get by though apparently there are scars from this time that impact them as adults. At least that is what I gather we are supposed to take from this book. The book opens somewhere in the 2070's with some mild dystopian society happening. It's not really an important part of the story so I really don't understand why it was even included. The youngest sibling who became a poet is now an elderly woman telling an audience the story of a great love story. The only problem is that the love story is really rather lame when you get down to it. You spend most of the time with the younger sibling and just when she gets annoying you switch to another sibling and find them to varying degrees of annoying as well. It's one of those books that the longer I think about it the things I disliked really outweigh anything that I did like.