Tina's Reading Books

Waffled between 2.5 & 3 stars. Decided on three, because again, the narrator sells the story.

Second in the trilogy about three sisters who inherit a ranch from their father. This one features Libby, only daughter of three who had any sort of relationship with the now deceased father. This book had the same strengths and weaknesses of the first book. Namely, character actions/reactions seems more plot driven than anything else. It just felt like the author had a specific way she needed her characters to act in order to serve plot, but honestly the book doesn't give people enough credit. For instance, the heroine Libby is treated a crazy super violent person who will attack at the drop of a pin by people who have known her all her life because she bashed in the windows of her cheating boyfriend's car once she found out he was cheating on her. The plot needs Libby to be made a bit of an outcast and this was the method the author used. Except this doesn't hold water with me because who wouldn't understand why she did that? Especially since most people in the town knew he was cheating on her.  When Tiger Woods' wife did the same thing, reactions ranged from people cheering to people snickering to people being appalled.  But nobody thought she was gonna go berserk again on random bystanders.

Anyway, the high point still remains Leo a small supporting character with a degenerative nerve disease who is given several POV chapters and who uses them to make smart observations about people and to try to cajole/guilt people into fundraising for a new van so he can go see a NFL game in person before he dies.

There is a third book featuring the third sister but I have no desire to read (or listen to it) as her appearance in this book and the previous one has made her to be one of the least sympathetic characters in the series and I have no desire to read about her.