Oh my goodness! This is the kind of domestic drama that grabs your attention like a train wreck and you can't put it down until you get to the end, guessing all the way.
Jennifer Barnes is told that she has a grade 4 cancer, a primary glioblastoma (brain tumor) and has only 6 weeks to live. OK -- so you need to get past the fact that nobody in medicine gives those kinds of predictions these days and just go with the flow, suspending your disbelief and getting to the main theme of this story. Family. Children. Secrets. Lies. Jennifer is mom to 3 adult children, triplets in truth, but actually twins with a separate zygote. She has a distant relationship to them because of things that have happened in the past, most notably the fact that her husband has left her for a younger woman and wants a divorce that Jennifer won't grant. Jennifer is convinced that her cancer is due to poisoning and she immediately suspects her estranged husband, Jake. Her daughters, Emily, Aline and Miranda, are meant to be helping her through this horrible time but they each have their own issues going on as well. As Jennifer goes through these final weeks, the past comes to the surface and all the truths are revealed. NO SPOILERS.
First, you must get past the death date business. Then, you need to get over the fact that this is a collection of really icky people. Honestly, it was hard to be empathetic with all the revelations and the difficult relationships in this family. Other than that, it was fast and fun and what a crazy story. I enjoyed it as pure entertainment and though it was hard to see the messed up family dynamics, it played out pretty much how I expected. By the end, I did recognize that Jennifer was a mess but I still felt some pity for her and her surviving daughters.
Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for this e-book ARC to read and review.
This is a standalone and is not part of any series.
Genre - domestic drama, mystery
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