Take one self-centered movie star mother and three neglected daughters and you have a recipe for dysfunction. Ronni Sunshine is so busy being fabulous, that she doesn't realize her home is not the happy one she would like the world to think it is. Her daughters, Nell, the sullen one, Meredith, the insecure one, and Lizzy, the charmed one, have never been close and don't really know how to be. But they will need to get it together because when their mother gets old, she will have something to tell them and they aren't going to like it.It took me the longest time to finish this book and I'm not altogether sure why. It wasn't a bad plot or bad writing, I think the author did a good job, especially with dialogue. However, the story didn't really pull me in, at least not in a can't put it down kind of way. I wouldn't say the characters were especially likable, but they were real. You could feel the animosity the girls had for their mother and the sadness they felt at not being a real family. Each suffered in their own way from the hurt their mother had unwittingly given them. Also you can feel Ronni's regret at not having treated her daughters better. She lost her husband and her children cringe whenever they hear from her (or from each other), so at the end of her life she just wants to make things right. Overall this was a decent book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes this kind of fiction, but I don't see myself coming back to read it a second time.
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