So, I finished The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown over the weekend. As you might imagine it is a sister story, and there are three of them. Their father is a Shakespearean scholar at the local college and the entire family peppers their conversation with quotes from the plays and occasionally the sonnets. While impressive that the author spent time carefully choosing quotations to perfectly fit the conversation, the whole premise gets tired after a while. Unfortunately the sisters are pretty cliché: the oldest is the responsible one who feels as if she needs to put her own life aside to take care of everyone else; the middle girl is the wild one because she feels as if she has always been uninteresting and unloved; the youngest is a drifter who returns because mom is sick and she is pregnant. Nothing that happens is particularly surprising.
An oddity in the book is the point of view: it is told from a 1st person, omniscient sort of view. It seems as if one of the sisters is telling the story speaking in first person using "we" and "us," but never "I." So a sentence will say (and this is not a quote, just an example of the style) "Rose was reading, Bean was sleeping, and Cordy was sitting with our parents." Meanwhile we know the thoughts of all three sisters....and there is no fourth secret sister...it is not that kind of book.
After all this it may seem as if I disliked the book, which I did not, but it was not as much about books as I had hoped, nor did it reveal anything about the relationships between sisters. Overall a disappointment, but not unfinishable or painful.