The Legacy By Katherine Webb (Published by Orion)
The legacy is about the Calcott family and it’s legacy of secrets, much of which surround a gypsy family that lives on their property during the summer seasons. The book unfolds these secrets as two sisters look for healing and want to break the vicious cycle of unhappiness in their family.
It took me a hundred plus pages to get into this book. This is Katherine Webb’s first novel. I would have loved to love it.
Katherine Webb relied heavily on the reader being curious enough to find out the great family secret. There was sense in the detachment of her novel. I got it in the end. If Caroline was so detached to her surroundings, it wouldn’t have made sense to attach her emotions.
I didn’t much care for main character, Erica, she was “too” perfect. Erica’s only short coming was that she didn’t have a lot of responsibility. Her sister is depressed from a secret she’s been running from since she was twelve. She made her characters too fragile to be sympathetic.
Even though that this book took me a while to get into, it was very good at the end. She managed to grip me and to take her story forward. I will definitely read her next book, as this book held a lot of promise.
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