Finally! The much anticipated (in my head anyway) fifth Walsh sister book. Helen's book wasn't quite as enjoyable as Claire, Rachel, Maggie (Margaret), or Anna’s before her, but I am pleased to discover that it doesn’t matter too much. Still a great book, worthy of placement alongside the other four.
Helen Walsh is having a tough time. After losing her apartment and any source of income, she moves back in with her parents and takes a job from her ex-boyfriend to track down a missing member of a reuniting boy band. No one knows where he has gone, and the reunion concert is looming. We follow Helen through her investigation into his disappearance, with the usual cast of crazy characters filing in as she goes. Similar to her sisters before her, there is twist of darkness to Helen and the events surrounding her, but this one was especially heavy, I think mostly because so many of the Walsh family members were MIA throughout the book. We saw appearances from Claire, Margaret, and Mammy Walsh, but with Anna and Helen herself being absent as comic relief, the sinking depression that Helen is battling with casts a significantly somber tone over the book.
Having said that, this was still a good showing from Marian Keyes, and I think that my anticipation for a new Walsh sister book was a bit unrealistic. This one didn't have quite the same amount of humor as her other books, but all in all it was well written and enjoyable, and I’ll definitely be reading it again. 4/5
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