And to make it worse, I was reading it on my Kindle and seen that there was 15% of the book left! I was like what?!?! So that is what dropped my rating to 2 stars.A riveting look behind the gates of the house of Astor as a famous family falls apart in public. When the whole book is based on whether or not Tony had swindled his mother’s money away, you can’t just stop and say, the trial is still ongoing. Well, the book ends abruptly in the middle of the trail!!!! It just leaves you hanging! I had to Google the end of the trail! Note to author: DON’T publish an unfinished book! You can’t just stop in the middle of what you’re writing about. Tony had written a letter stating he knew his mother had Alzheimer’s years before she signed these wills, so the battle does not look good for him. Astor and the trial is focused on whether or not Brooke was in the right mental state when she signed new wills. At this point, it’s gone way beyond the care of Mrs. Father versus son, concerning grandmother. Due to this, my rating was starting to drop, but it was the ending that really caused it to plummet. Which brings me to the point of useless filler….I felt that there was way too much useless information on non-important characters in the book. The author would be talking about one person and then bring in another person and the next thing you know would be talking about that person’s childhood. What starts out as a grandson’s concern for his grandmother (Phillip was worried that she wasn’t getting the health care she needed from Tony), turns into criminal activities concerning her money.įirst let me say this book was all over the place.
The accusations were that, in her old age and failing mental health (Brooke lived to be 105 years old), Tony took advantage of her and had the will changed to benefit him, swindling millions of dollars away from his mother.
The basis of the book is supposed to be the scandal surrounding Mrs.
Tony has 2 sons of his own, who only get to know their grandmother later in life, due to their father’s resent towards his mother. Brooke only had one son, and we soon discover that Tony feels quite entitled to his mother’s millions, even though he is not an Astor by blood. Like most New York socialites, her life was not without drama and scandal. Marrying into one of the richest families in the world, she inherited the Astor name late in life and soon made a name for herself as a powerful, yet approachable New York philanthropist.
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