This might have been a lightly entertaining novel if it weren't for the anti-organ donor attitude that cropped up so very often. As someone with a loved one waiting for a transplant, I found it extremely offensive.

This book was horrible, read all of the other one star reviews and then add this note: What 35 year old man, who was abandoned at birth, would leave his country (Japan) and his profession to come to the USA with his wife and three children (with another baby on the way!) to live near a mother he never knew? And to have his children grow up around people who never wanted him in the first place? Talk about culture shock! What about the people who raised him and loved him...just leave them behind? What about his wife's family? WHY should these selfish old aunts enjoy grandchildren?

Since I listened to the CD abridged version, it's possible I missed something that would have made this book at least mediocre. Not likely though. The title and the picture on the cover seem to have been for another book entirely. This was one time when an abridged version was better, because if I had to hear "Dodo, Diddy, and Ducky" just one more time, I'd have been tempted to burn the CD's. "Dodo, Diddy, Ducky and Darby"...just plain Dumb. If the author ever writes another book with the Aunts, Please use their given names.

I am so disappointed in Fern's most recent stories--especially this one! Didn't she used to be a good writer? This is a story that could be made to be almost believable, but instead it seems ridiculous. Her characters have also been getting on my nerves. Nobody talks the way they talk or even have conversations in the manner they do. I'm annoyed.

I always make it a point to finish every book I start, and this was a chore.

Russ Gunn is anti organ donation and when he dies unexpectedly his step mother donates ALL his organs. His best friend Darby who is pro organ donation is torn throughout the book since she feels she has let him down. The author could have pursued a very moving plot line where all the recipients and their stories were told rather than just a quick look at 3 of the patients. The author also could have pursued a compelling legal drama about the living will being violated.

The author told a disjointed story about a woman who makes doll houses for a living. (Who in their right mind would pay 50K for a doll house - let's get real) She has a cast of aunts who could have been the heroine's of their own novels. She has the evil Bella who runs away never to be heard from again with millions of dollars she stole from her husband.

I plowed through descriptions about doll houses, and family dinners and then ran through speedy plot advancements about relationship development.

I was not impressed by this book and would not read this author by choice again.