If I got it right, we have the main character telling her story in past tense, with captions of her talking to his interrogator, sorta. The first half of the book is painful. We go into full detail with the Spellman family problems. The family is definitively dysfunctional, but I don't know about the fun. Where I think the fun should be, I feel nauseating controlling and just being mean to each other. Somehow I'm to believe they still love each other, altho I don't feel like it is ever actually shown. As the mystery finally kicks off, it gets easier - but still, we can't seem to shake off the family.

The ending however was pretty satisfactory. Not sure if it was worth it, though. If I'm not 100% sure I will get less of the whole family in the second one, I won't pick it up.