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Nov 27, 2019Bookthia rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This is a story about 4 siblings, the Plumbs, who think they are getting a big inheritance (known as The Nest) when the youngest sibling turns 40. Except that a few months before the payout the money gets used to bail the oldest sibling, Leo, out of a legal situation when he's in a car accident and his negligence results in a serious injury to another person. The Plumb family is dysfunctional and distant. I didn't love them. I didn't even like them. They were selfish and entitled and living beyond their means. They treated each other with an odd combination of gullibility and suspicion. And each of them, except for Leo, had likeable parts of them. But mostly they were people I would not have anything to do with in real life. This is a story about how money causes problems, and for the Plumb siblings, money was certainly the root of dishonesty and deception and morally questionable decisions. They were the architects of their own problems but to their credit, they did seem like better people at the end of the story than they were at the beginning.