Family Secrets Lies and Alibis Review

Nanette B. Buchanan

If you enjoy reading about deep family dirt then this book would satisfy your reading needs. It's chock filled with everything it's title implies, Family secrets, lies and alibis. I found this book to be filled with drama, lots and lots of drama. It also includes Adultry, abuse and incest. This book is definitely not about your average everyday family, yet it is believeable because drama like this happens. Just watch the Jerry Springer show and you'll see what I mean!

Many times characters names just appeared, leaving me, the reader, confused. I thought I had missed something and had to go back and reread, which was very irritating. These characters seemed to just pop in, to fill the pages.

Often throughout the book I found characters speaking and I had no idea who was saying what. Once again I had to go back and reread pages and paragraphs just to clear this irritating issue.

Also with this book I found it to be long, drawn out and very wordy. I felt like it had taken forever just for the funeral to take place and even longer for the reading of the will.

The beginning main character, DQ had a mistress. He was only sleeping with her because he wanted children. His wife hadn't been able to produce any until the mistress became pregnant with a son named Rell. The wife knew about the mistress and never told the kids or ended the marriage. Now the mistress wanted DQ to dump his wife and marry her but of course he didn't want to. Isn't that the way it always is? But the mistress loved DQ and wanted them to remain together. Rell had no idea his father and mother had never married. He had no idea his father had another wife and family...he had no idea that the woman he was in love/lust with was his sister!

This kind of story has been told over and over in many different ways but it's always the same idea. Because there were so many confusing issues I found this book to be a very difficult read. I didn't like the characters and found it non exciting. Therefor I am giving this book a   2 1/2.