This is not a bad book, but it definitely could’ve been a short story or a novella. It’s nearly four hundred pages long, and I didn’t need at least two hundred fifty of them. I remember thinking I wish I could read a kindle book on 1.5x like I do on audiobooks that I’m trying to power through. I read this at night in my bed, and I remember each night getting into my bed and not being able to remember what book I was reading. These are not good signs.
Like I said, it’s not bad, but there are so many words. Our heroine is Kit, and she’s in her fifties and just trying to live. She gets a call from a lawyer about an aunt she didn’t know she had, and she thinks he’s a spammer for the first like three times he calls. Again, toooo many words. Also, the second we met her husband I thought he was an asshole. He proved me right later on in the book, but he had major asshole vibes right away. Eventually Kit figures out that the lawyer is real and she has a long lost aunt who left the family summer camp to her.
There are like fifty-two years where Kit is trying to get to the camp, and then another fifty-two years where she’s at the camp and learning things, and then another fifty-two years where she realizes her husband is an asshole. I’m totally exaggerating, but it felt this tedious. She’s trying to figure out family secrets, and her own family (the lady members) are trying to support her. I guessed some of the twist, but it’s definitely a cool twist. Just too many words, as I have previously stated! Three stars.
