What Makes a Family by Colleen Faulkner #BookReview

  Nestled in the Chesapeake Bay, Brodie Island is charming, remote, and slow to change. For three hundred years, Abby Brodie s farming family has prospered there. Now, years after leaving to make her way on her own terms, Abby is coming home to see her ailing grandmother, with her teenage daughter and a wealth of memories in tow. Yet as family members gather at the old farmhouse, Abby realizes this visit offers more than a chance to say goodbye. 
After decades of feeling she was a disappointment as a daughter, Abby is beginning to see that her mother, too, has struggled to feel a sense of belonging within the Brodie family. Celeste, Abby s self-centered sister, is far from the successful actress she pretends to be, and needs help that only Abby and their half-brother, Joseph, can give. But most surprising of all is the secret that Grandmother Brodie has been carrying one that will make each woman question her identity and the sacrifices she s willing to make to gain acceptance. 
With her trademark emotional honesty and insight, Colleen Faulkner lays bare the challenges at the heart of a family learning how to forgive, connect, and let ourselves be truly known at last. 

Colleen Faulkner lives in Delaware, where her family settled more than three hundred years ago. She comes from a long line of storytellers and spends her days, when she’s not writing, running the family farm, reading, and traveling the world. She’s still married to her high school sweetheart and has four children and six grandchildren. Look for Colleen on Facebook. Readers can also visit her website at: www.colleenfaulknernovels.com.

What makes a family was an okay read. Faulkner is such a great author! Her other works have left me breathless and are so relatable! This novel, however, didn't leave me with the same warm and fuzzy feeling as her other novels. The time period that this book took place in was so fascinating to read about, and I absolutely LOVED it! But what I didn't love was was the family dynamics in this book. The men didn't seem to add much to the story. And Little Joe was babied his whole life by his mother which in turn means that he practically needs someone to do everything for him. I just thought that the dynamics in this family were a little off putting. Overall What Makes a Family was an okay read for me. 

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Posted in: 3 Stars, Adult, Kensington Publishing Corporation, Review