The Daughters by Julia Crouch (Bookouture)

The novel The Daughters is a story about the idealized memory of a mother, a controlling man, and family relations that are never easy.  A story of a family permeated by the mourning and suspicion of older daughters that their mother was murdered. And the killer? Perhaps their father, who is remarried to the much younger Carys and who seems extremely kind. caring and almost overly maternal. Almost the perfect stepmother and a wife.

Personally, the novel left me cold. The characters are, otherwise, everyone with their own inner turmoil, too two-dimensional, and the flow of the novel dragged on and on. The end was very predictable.

Sadly not my cup of tea.

2,5/5