Monday, February 15, 2010

The MURDERER'S DAUGHTERS by Randy Meyers ***

Well this started off with some unreal scenarios. A 10 yo wants a set of encyclopedias for her birthday...ok...whatever. This poor family begins with mom who was a teen mother and a drunk dad who murders mom and the story follows the 2 daughters thru their life. One who was stabbed by daddy keeps close contact with him (why? clueless), the other who failed to alert anyone quick enough to the violence won't visit him in jail at all. They are in an orphanage for a short stint then fostered by manipulation of the eldest girl into a wealthy sort of family.


The liklihood of either girl with this background attending college and having the 'foster' father pay for it is way out of league with reality. Also it's never explained how the elder girl who shows absolutely no feelings of warmth towards anyone at all and is jealous of her sister becomes so caring as an adult that she wants to be a doctor. Then she suddenly is so compassionate. I don't get it. She never had any epiphany I saw.


Also; I despise people writing about how characters with scars touch them and rub them their entire life when the tiniest stress is on them. Believe me I've met hundreds of people and who has NO scar? And not one of them is obsessively playing with it as some writers seem to think is so common. It's NOT. Makes the character seem weird, off, psychotic even and belongs in a ward.


The eldest girl thinks her father RUINED her life. Actuality he saved it from a self obsessed glamour queen mother, drunk father who can't deal with reality and boom they somehow end up being college grads with nice lives. So ruined!! I wish my life was that ruined. I'm sure the writer didn't intend the reader to think that either.


So this really should be in a "fantasy" category not just fiction. Other than that it's not a bad read. It flows well, fleshed out characters, nice scene descriptions as well. Nothing difficult to follow at all. If you can get over your disbelief with the basic story line it's ok.

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