Book #51 |
Book: Family & Other Calamities | Author: Leslie Gray Streeter | |
| Source: Free First Reads download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 253 | Duration: 06/27/25 – 06/30/25 (4 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★☆☆ | Genres: fiction, romance, humor | ||
| 📕10-word summary: A journalist confronts a former mentor who stole her work. 🖌6-word review: Lackluster characters. Interesting but uncompelling plot. |
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| 💭Favorite quote: “At a certain age, your face is sick of you, and it’s done hiding it for you.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: firmament, sabra | |||
| Description:* Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work a widow’s grief, betrayals of family and friends, and scandals that almost tanked her reputation. Not that Dawn dwells on the past. Well, hardly. When she returns to Baltimore with her husband’s ashes, she can’t avoid it. In fact, she’s diving into decades of backstabbing and treachery for her first trip home in years. Joe Perkins, her former mentor, whose explosive exposé about big-city corruption is being turned into a slanderous movie, is also back in town. The villain of the piece? Dawn. She’ll finally set the record straight. Returning home might just be the biggest story in Dawn’s life, a fresh start—and happy ending—she never expected.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: After finishing the book I read after this one, I had to really think to remember what this book was about. That can’t be good, can it? The chapters switch between the past and the present, but the past isn’t done in traditional flashbacks. Instead, the female protagonist, Dawn, becomes submerged in memories or in stories she’s telling to others. It may sound confusing, because it is — at least it was to me, at first. The whole story just didn’t grab me, and I’d be hard-pressed to recommend it to anyone. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
