Book 8: "The Mother-in-Law" by Eve Makis

[kittiwake]

If he weren't obsessed about Elvis, he'd be obsessing about something else. At last Elvis is a positive role model. I obsess about him myself sometimes, dressed in that black leather jumpsuit.
'Positive role model? Heavy drinker, pill-popper, philanderer?'
'We all have our foibles, Lydia. If Elvis drank stinky green tea and went to bed at eleven-thirty, do you think he would have been a rock and roll legend?'

Unfortunately I didn't really like this one, and if the author wasn't going to be doing an author talk at the BookCrossing Unconvention this year, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.

Electra, the daughter-in-law, is a warm and vibrant woman, and a night-owl who uses eleven-thirty as an example of an early bedtime, but I didn't really warm to her, her husband Adam, or their family and friends, or care about their problems. Electra'a best friend Lydia, with her inadequate mothering style and bratty son, was especially annoying.

Reviews of Books 7 and 8 cross-posted to 50bookchallenge.