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PBnuffsaid
Jul 27, 2014PBnuffsaid rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I listened to this as an audio book. The reader gets 4/5 stars. Not sure what exactly caused me to want to read this book. I'm not particularly into Shakespeare, nor do I have sisters. Maybe it was the thought of a family who read all the time and since I don't have sisters. Whatever it was, this book didn't fulfill what I wanted it to be. It took me forever to get through it. I would forget some days that I was even in the middle of the book, thus not reading it for a few days at a time. When I came back to it, I still didn't care. The plot of this book plodded along. I couldn't figure out what the point was or where it was going. I don't need books to have a thrill ride and I like coming of age kind of books that don't seem to have a point until the twist at the end. This book didn't really have a twist, it was just a family of people dealing with their family of things. There was no big resolution at the end, they just made decisions that they had been trying to deal with throughout the story. The narrator point of view bothered me. It seemed to be told from the sisters' point of view, but somehow outside of all of their points of view at the same time. I imagined the narrator to be Bean, but then the narrator would say something in the third person and reference "we" and I didn't know who was talking. Also, the names Bean and Cordy bothered me. I always confused them. For some reason, in my mind, I imagined someone being named Bean to be the one who was the hippie, floater sister while someone named Cordy to be the one who is from NYC and dresses professionally all the time. I don't know, I was continually trying to place the name with the correct character in my head. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, unless you like books that don't seem to have a definite purpose.