Oh how I wanted to like this book! I thoroughly enjoyed Stephanie Kallos' first novel Broken For You and eagerly anticipated something else from her. Sing Them Home is long, lacking in sympathetic characters, and not interesting. I think there was supposed to be a mystery, but I didn't even really care and had basically figured it out by the time of the great revealing. Set in Nebraska, the three Jones children (now grown up) are re-facing the disappearance of their mother during a tornado during their childhood. Their father has passed away and they meet for his funeral. Nobody knows what happened to their mother, Hope, and their lives are tainted by her absence and the mystery attached to it. Sounds intriguing enough....but the plot and the character development and the themes just never get 'there'. And did I mention that it's long?
