The First Wife

I'm still unsure how to rate this. Every single character is SO dysfunctional, and all of their behavior is derived from childhood issues (mostly mommy issues) and this book serves as a good warning against leaving issues like that unresolved. Or, letting the past and your feelings control your present.
-We had a character who refused to see reality for what it was, and instead, let his reality be completely tainted by his past experience. Even when the truth was staring him in the face, he refused to see the truth because he couldn't get out of his own past.
-We had a character who was so desperate to be taken care of, again because of her past, that she was mostly a weak character who had nothing to stand on but her reliance on her “knight in shining armor.”
-We had a character who had a weird dependency and jealousy for her brother caused by past childhood issues as well (her brother took over a lot of the parenting and caretaking roles) and let it extend so far that as a grown ass adult she inserts herself into her brother's romances.
- And finally, we had the character who let mommy issues completely taint the way he views women and the entire sex for the rest of his life.

The mystery was okay, but overall it got too mixed up in all the characters and all this history being drudged up for me to read. It felt discombobulated and took away from my enjoyment and overall connection to the characters and desire to see the mystery resolved.