Power Struggle

14. The Radleys

I had promised to not read anything else until I finished Middlemarch, but on Saturday I needed a book for the bath and started this.  Then on Sunday we lost power for 12 hours and since MM is on the iPad I tucked in and finished it.  What a treat!

It was surprising.  It is about a family living in an English Village, trying to live through gossip and innuendo and their own doubts about one another.  Quite similar to Middlemarch actually!  One difference, the Radleys are vampires.  Abstaining vampires, but vampires none the less and the kids find out when the daughter murders a boy at a party, so things get sticky quick.  In the end, they are a family, a family full of faults, but a family none the less.  It is an interesting plot twist but a very accessible story about a family who is stuck and need to work together if they want to move forward.

Power is back and MM will be conquered today!