A Family Affair

A Family Affair
By Mary Campisi

My eyes kind of rolled a few times when I was reading this book.  Thinking about all the secrets in "A Family Affair" and knowing that while this was fiction, part of it hits close to real life experience.  Okay, the story may play out different in this book than my own experiences, but the secrets these people held while knowing the secrets were alive, made my eyes roll a few times.

I'll have to say this was an excellent book.  At times, I had a little difficulty in following everything, but if I kept reading, all of it would come together.  At no time when I was reading the book, could I have guessed the ending would have come about in the way that it did.  No, I'm not going to give anything away and spoil your experience of reading this book.  The author, Mary Campisi did an excellent job of holding the suspense until the end of the book.

Just because you think you know people in life, it doesn't mean you always do.  We often tend to put one persona of ourselves out to the world, while holding the truth very close to ourselves.  This book highlights this in a very dramatic way.  Again, "A Family Affair" is a work of fiction, but in many ways, the plot is most likely more true to real life, than we may want to believe.


In my own family, there were secrets that some of us knew while others had eyes that were closed to what was going on.  I'll never know the full extent to what took place, but if the walls could talk, I'm sure we would all be shocked and surprised.  Yet, to keep a secret, means that the other people in your life have to have their eyes closed to some degree.  You can't help but live in a family and share your entire life with others, only to be completely oblivious to the facts before you.  Yes, you can you act as if they don't exist, but deep down, I believe we pick up more than we wish to admit.

I was a little saddened at the end, where it just seemed liked everything kind of dropped.  The story line built up to this great plot, and then poof it was all over.  I kept finding myself wanting to know what happened to the characters after this.  I felt shorted a little.  It wouldn't have taken much more by the author to do this.  If I have one criticism of the book, it would be to have developed the ending just a little more.

All in all, this was an excellent book.  It held my attention and I was almost at the point of not wanting to put it down.  It was a quick read which helps.  I think you would enjoy this book and the plot that unfolds. 

A Family Affair by Mary Campisi
Available on Amazon in Kindle format

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