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RITA Reader Challenge Review

Once a Family by Tara Taylor Quinn

Once a Family

This is a RITA nominee that the reviewer could not finish, and who knows that and hears, “I triple dog dare you”?  Me.  I hear a triple dog dare where none was given and here we are. It’s a good thing I read this on an airplane, because that kept me from throwing things. The set up is that Sedona is a lawyer who works at a women’s shelter, and Tatum, a 16 year old girl, … Continue reading Once a Family by Tara Taylor Quinn

RITA Reader Challenge Review

Once a Family by Tara Taylor Quinn

Once a Family

Once a Family is basically a Lifetime movie—full of melodrama with nowhere near enough pay off for it to be worth the time and energy spent with it.  I got about four chapters into it when I had to step away from it because there was absolutely nothing about it that I liked. The plot was ridiculous, which, if we’re talking Lifetime movies is pretty standard: Talia/Tatum (she used the name Talia with the staff … Continue reading Once a Family by Tara Taylor Quinn