December 23, 2024
Book review

A Secret Family Harvest by Helen Yeomans (2013). ***. What if money literally grew on trees? And what if very few people knew it? That’s the premise, and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a book based on it before. The author and her characters spend about the first three-quarters of the book debating and speculating about what could happen if the secret of the money trees gets out. Then it does. And then the story wraps up pretty quickly and fairly neatly. It’s as if, once the “worst” happens, the author was either no longer very interested in the possibilities of an aftermath, or couldn’t figure out what to do with them/what they would be. A decent read, but ultimately not all that satisfying.