"The Favorite Daughter" by Patti Callahan Henry

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰

Colleen (Lena) Donahue ran from Watersend, South Carolina 10 years ago after a bitter betrayal. Now she has learned that her beloved father is showing signs of Alzheimer's and her brother needs her help. While she would do anything for her father and brother, returning home means facing the sister that she hasn't spoken to since she left. While the siblings struggle to come to grips with their father's diagnosis and preserve the pieces of his past in a memory book, long-hidden family secrets are revealed. 

I enjoyed reading this book and I loved the theme of the family coming together and working past prior issues for the greater good. The father, Gavin Donahue, was definitely my favorite and I enjoyed his parts in the book the most. The pace was good and I was curious to see how it all unraveled. Overall though, I don't know that this book was for me. I had a hard time relating to Colleen who I felt was a bit self-absorbed and cowardly and while the book did take a few bends, I found myself hoping for a bigger twist. 

Thank you to #NetGalley, the Tall Poppy Writers, Tandem Literary and Berkley Publishing Group for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

Ugly cry potential: Medium-Low
LOL:  LowCharacter development: OKUnputdownable-ness: MediumOriginality: MediumQuality of Writing: GoodIntellectual Depth: Medium-LowEmotionally Trying/Hard to Read: Low