Fed up with her family's preoccupation with her sister's coming wedding, Persis tells no one of her music school scholarship until the disappearance of a valuable wedding gift precipitates a crisis that reveals a new side to her family.
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_Ars gratia artis_ taken too far,
This review is from: Maid of Honor (Mass Market Paperback)
Persis's musical achievements are overshadowed by her sister Loni's upcoming wedding. Her father is concerned about money, Loni is concerned with herself, and Persis's mother is concerned with appearances. As a result, Persis is constantly put down and mistreated. She begins to take control when a sleazy diamond and ruby brooch, one of Loni's wedding gifts, goes missing, and Persis becomes involved in a tangle of lies meant to get her sister out of trouble. In the end, the brooch is found, Loni finds some independence, and Persis receives recognition from her parents; and not only that, but she has come to understand them better. It sounds like a happy ending, and it should be, but it's not. The book is a fast and entertaining read, but it's shallow. The changes at the end are too tenuous and come too fast to mean anything; the reader cannot even pretend that they do, for that would entail caring about the characters, which is difficult when they are obviously Bad, or even when they are obviously Good, (i.e., Persis). The book is pervaded with an atmosphere of wish-fulfillment and self-centredness, which, while true to life, is not really likeable. There's no point in sympathizing with people who are already sympathizing with themselves enough for two. As a result the reader comes to the end only to seriously ask herself, "What was the point?"
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