Review 420: It All Comes Down to This

It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler
My rating: 2.75 of 5 stars

A summer light read, a beach read as they say. Three sisters are coping with their mother's recent death. One of the shockers was in the will that said they must sell the Maine vacation home, oh and another secret she withheld all these years.

But mother soon took a back seat to all the other drama going on in these three women's lives. They were never very close being born four-five years apart, but they do seem to be connecting in this book, through their shared experience. The eldest Beck is very hurt by her mother's ask to sell the house she wanted to use as a writer's retreat. To get away from her editor husband, who may just be gay. The middle girl Claire is a recent divorced woman, a pediatric cardiac doctor with way too much on her plate, plus the pinning for her sister's husband.

Then there's Sophie, the youngest who is faking it until she makes it but is drowning in debt to live the best instagram life for all those followers. Being in her late thirties she's starting to wonder if it's time to settle down, actually find the right man to stay with.

Oh, there's much more, but the best character really was C.J. who just got out of jail for three years of attempted patricide. He seemed to have taken those years to improve himself, be a better person and it shows when he encounters a young boy and his grandma living in the house his buddy said he could stay in for a while.

There were small holes here an there, which I overlooked but the ending I found too preachy. Sure the message was a good one, aren't they all, but it just rubbed me the wrong way.