Title: Some interesting characters lost in an implausible framework
Product review: While the relationships of the first generation of Ya-Yas made for some good reading, the framing story of the oldest daughter of the most outrageous Ya-Ya was trite, boring, and, as a result, a little intrusive. Wells was a little lazy in her characterizations (for all their brass and sass, the Ya-Yas do not have distinctive voices), and she completely failed to engage me in the story of the adult daughter. The "Gone With the Wind" episode was memorable, as were a handful of others, but the overall effect was severely handicapped by Wells's sloppiness as a writer. These poor women never seemed real to me, and, in the end, the point of the story (the daughter's redemption) looked a little too self-serving for comfort.
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