Synopsis:
For Sandra, daughter of illusionists, Adam and
Ophelia, life’s never been run of the mill! But when Adam’s wandering eye
lights on yet another conquest, it proves a chorus girl too far, and Sandra’s
caught in the reverberations of her parents acrimonious parting. Coerced into
restoring her depressed Mother to the bosom of a family Sandra never knew
existed, she’s sucked into a situation that even for her is unnerving.
From being without a single relative, she suddenly acquires several she’d rather do without, and learns a few home truths she’d prefer not to know. Ophelia, it appears, has not been entirely honest about any number of things. There’s no doubt in Sandra’s mind, the sooner she puts as much distance as possible between herself, her newly discovered nearest and dearest, their peculiar tendencies and their failing hotel business, the happier she’s going to be.
Dire straits call for desperate measures and Sandra reluctantly rises to the occasion. A hanged housemaid, a fly-on-the-wall documentary, The Psychic Society and a quasi co-operative journalist all handled correctly should, she reckons, get the family business up and running, which will allow her to do the same – as fast as she can, and in the opposite direction. Things unfortunately move swiftly from bad to farce and then get a hell of a lot darker. One moment Sandra’s struggling to save the family’s income, the next, she’s battling to save their lives.
Review:
What
a wonderful book and not entirely what I expected. I thought I was going to read
an easy, quick-read, relaxing king of book and this is all that, but also so
much more. This novel is a pure joy to read with funny and eccentric characters
galore.
Sandra
(or Serenissima as she was named by her parents) is a daughter of a magical
due. However, just how magical she doesn’t get to realise until she is thrown
completely out of what she knows and into the midst of a crazy family, she
never knew she had.
Suddenly
she is trying to save a family, hotel business, fighting a grumpy old great grandmother,
avoiding strange grandmother, who seems to pop out in the weirdest of places
and saving herself from a force she just cannot quite put her finger on.
This
novel is full of twists and turns, with fabulous characters you will adore and
many family secrets that come to blows and only one person to save the day –
even if she does not really want to. Yes, this has an air of the supernatural,
but anyone enjoying something a little different or just wants that break from
a world overflowing with serious news, will love this book.
Thank
you very much to TBConFB and the author for this book.
Rating: 5/5
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