

The side plot about a character named CJ with a mysterious past who’s trying to buy the Geller property is strange and irrelevant.

The Geller conundrums are the definition of rich people problems. As the sisters bicker endlessly over what to do, each reveals her own secrets that prove the whole family is garbage. Eldest sister Beck moves into the cottage under the guise of renovating for sale, while secretly she nurtures a plan to fix it up and live there, leaving her husband and their sexless marriage in the process. Three-sentence summary: In the wake of their mother’s death, the three Geller sisters learn their mother’s family history wasn’t as straightforward as they always believed, and furthermore, the family matriarch has left strict orders to sell the family summer home on Mount Desert Island, Maine.

None of the characters were particularly likable, and all of them have “problems” created by their own selfishness. It All Comes Down to This reads like La Croix tastes: a diluted and somewhat flat version of what you thought you were getting. Review: It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler (SMP, 07 June 2022)
