Twisted Family Values by V.C. Chickering #bookreview #fiction #family #historical #drama
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Title: Twisted Family Values
Author: V.C. Chickering
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Publication Date: June 25, 2019
Page Count: 345
My rating: 3 1/2 stars
About the book:
An unpredictable and entertaining tale of secrets, desires, and forgiveness spanning four generations of an American family.
In WASPy Larkspur, New Jersey, social expectations and decorum rule, and Marjorie and Dunsfield Thornden are the envy of their neighbors. Their daughters Claire and Cat set the small town’s social calendar by throwing tastefully lavish family parties year round. Because it’s 1977, underage debauchery is to be expected—and Cat and Claire’s children, Bizzy and Choo, are at its very center.
Underneath their well-maintained veneer, the Thorndens are quite dysfunctional, but have always had their entitlement to fall back on. And while some are finally ready to accept what they’re willing to give up for the life that they think they deserve, secrets that should’ve never been kept—especially not from each other—are bubbling unattractively to the surface.
So when a scandal threatens to unravel this tight-lipped family and their secrets, the Thorndens will have to decide how much they’ll let decorum rule social mores dictate their decisions and how far they’ll go to keep some secrets just that. Any choice they make could mean freedom from expectations but will change the course of their family’s legacy forever.
Twisted Family Values by V.C. Chickering is a multi-generational family drama that covers roughly fifty years in time. The story in Twisted Family Values is one that changes the point of view between the characters.
Twisted Family Values is about the Thornden family who are the epitome of high-society. Marjorie and Dunsfield Thornden have daughters Claire and Cat and then Biz (Bizzy) and Charlie (Choo)who are their children and cousins.
Bizzy and Choo were raised in the seventies and became best friends as much as they were cousins. As they grow older though and entered the dating world their close bond became an issue on more than one occasion and one incident in college fractures their friendship.
Twisted Family Values by V.C. Chickering is one of those novels where you have the elite rich family doing not so good things. There’s secrets and scandals with the dysfunctional characters that are told in somewhat of a dark humor way. Overall reading this one I’d give it three and a half stars myself, not a bad read overall.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.
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About the author:
V.C. Chickering has written the novels TWISTED FAMILY VALUES (dysfunctional family saga, June 2019) and NOOKIETOWN (funny/racy romp, March 2017) both published by St. Martin’s Press. She’s also written for BUST as “Tori Galore,” Cosmo, and The Washington Post magazines as well as MTV, Comedy Central, Lifetime, and Oxygen. Her essays have been published in the anthologies The BUST Guide to the New Girl Order, and The Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World. Chickering is currently at work on a romance series and lives in New Jersey where she writes and performs original clever/catchy tunes for her band, Tori Erstwhile and The Montys. Find her on Insta as @vcchickering. She’s highly entertaining on the Insta.
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