In Good Eggs, by Rebecca Hardiman, Millie Gogarty is an irrepressible old woman with a bit of a shoplifting habit. It's no big deal, she thinks. How could anyone get angry with a sweet, little old lady? Except that they do and her son Kevin is especially exasperated with her. He is ready to have her committed to a home, but settles for a home companion for a bit instead. Kevin's family life isn't exactly going well, either. His teen daughter, Aideen, is emotional and destructive and beyond their help so he sends her to her own home away from home- boarding school. This doesn't not make Aideen happy at all. To make matters worse for Kevin, he is feeling frustrated with his joblessness and his wife's neglect. We all know the solution to those two problems: an affair. Disasters ensue and two of these three main characters go missing, somewhere far abroad.
This book was cute, Millie was a doll and I felt sympathy for the the teenaged angst Aideen experiences, but Kevin was kind of pathetic. The other side characters had almost no development and weighed the story down. The pacing was a little slow and I often fell asleep after only a few pages at night, causing me to take much longer to complete this book than usual. I was extremely frustrated with the ending. It felt like it showed up out of no where and provided very few answers. I'm sad that I didn't like this book more because sweet, old Millie deserved better.
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