Sherry Morris has written a tale of one totally neurotic family. Donna is a little left of center herself after growing up in her family. At least she keeps trying to find answers as more and more questions pop up from her trips to the past. Sister and brother Tammy and Perry are aggravating as heck. With them for siblings I'm not sure if I'd have kept as much sanity as Donna did.

The story is more and more like a soap opera. Too many characters, too many side stories. It unravels a bit and loses some of the pizzazz trying to trace the mystery of Donna's parentage, the appearance and disappearance of misprinted one dollar billsand every other subplot. Every time she goes back in time to her mystery dream guide they get interrupted just as it starts getting good. We're dragged back to the present with Donna to deal with her current day mysteries and vicious siblings. It takes so long to put some of the pieces together that I really lose interest.

I think Ms. Morris could have a good story here. It just dragged for me. There was too much flip flopping in time, too many tongue-in-cheek references to famous people who could have been involved in the mother's life. The ending held a modicum of satisfaction with flashes of humor and 'gotcha' kinds of things when she finally gets tough with her siblings. But overall, it just lacked that flow that keeps me hooked on a story's plot.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Mildly sensual

Reviewer: Dee Dailey
August 12, 2008