Lynnie 
contemporary fiction
The Children is the story of a blended family, told from the perspective of one of the daughters after her stepfather has died. She and her mother (and sometimes her sister), live in her stepfather's family home, which is owned by his two grown sons. The Goodreads description explains it perfectly, "Ann Leary pulls back the curtain on one blended family, as they are forced to grapple with the assets and liabilities – both material and psychological – left behind by their wonderfully flawed patriarch."
The first half or so of The Children was interesting, or at least engaging. I enjoyed learning about this strange, eccentric family & their even stranger dynamic. Then, about mid-way through I just got bored. One of the siblings was so one-dimensional and I often wondered why he was included at all. And the story's foil was so obvious from the beginning that I wasn't even remotely shocked at the book's "twist."
Sadly, I just never connected with nor cared about any of the characters. This book was a definite miss for me.
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