The Trouble with Rose - Amita Murray

Description

A missing sister. A broken heart.
A whole lot of trouble…

Rilla is getting married. Except she isn't. She's running away – from her confused fiancé Simon, her big mad family, and the memories nipping at her heels.

Her sister Rose would know what to do in such times of crisis.

But the trouble is, Rose is the crisis. She disappeared years ago, and Rilla's heart went missing too.

Where is Rose? And who is Rilla without Rose?

If she's to rescue some happiness out of all this chaos, she needs to find out

Review

I've got mixed feelings about this book. It all begins with the bride being arrested on her wedding day which just didn't sit right with me at all. We don't even get to find out why she's been arrested until quite a long way into the book either. It was a loose end niggling at me all through the story.

Rilla is the central character and I just didn't understand her one bit. She is part of a very large Indian family and she is frustrated by them. It seemed to me that they should be the ones frustrated with her. They all seemed to talk common sense and Rilla just floated along not worrying about anyone but herself, and of course Rose.

I got a little bored with the book about half way through and began to wonder where Rose could have gone. I did actually figure it out all on my own. To be fair the conclusion of where Rose went and the closing of the book was very poignant. But still I couldn't reconcile in my mind why Rilla had a responsible career and yet had a very irresponsible lifestyle. Thank goodness for the GIF - that is what Rilla calls her family. "Great Indian Family" except every time I saw GIF my brain thought of an actual GIF and it was annoying and caused me to rethink what I was reading.

I didn't find the novel hilarious. It was amusing in minor parts. I really wish Rilla hadn't been so self absorbed and we had more time with the GIF.

I'm giving this book three out of five stars. My thanks to netgalley and HarperCollins for an ARC to review.

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