Boring! ( )

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I've never read a Karen Kingsbury adult book, but I have seen her extensive number of novels in the inspirational genre.

I believe that this juvenile series, Baxter Family Children, showed up on my recommendations radar because I've read and loved other large family juvenile series such as the All-of-a-Kind Family, the Vanderbeekers, and the Penderwicks series.

As the introduction to Best Family Ever states, this is a prequel to the author's adult fiction series about the Baxter family when the children are adults. Not having read those, maybe that's why I wasn't as invested in this prequel as readers of the adult fiction series might be.

The story had some moral lessons; there is a lot of internal dialog with prayer mentioned as the family is strongly Christian. The story concerns the whole family, mom, dad and their 5 children, with the focus on the middle child, Ashley. I found Ashley to be a true drama queen and I wonder how she is portrayed as an adult.
I didn't get the true "feel good" vibes I got with the other juvenile series mentioned above. There seem to be quite a few family misunderstanding around Ashley which the parents let play out with the intent of lesson learning. I just felt a bit of a sad vibe with this one. I might read #2 in this series, just to see if focus on other siblings is more interesting to me. ( )