I enjoy family dramas, and I enjoy Craig Lancaster’s writing, so choosing this book was a no-brainer for me. It’s set in a small Montana town and centers around events surrounding the upcoming Jamboree celebrating the town. It’s July, and family secrets and resentments come to a boil, as do differing ideas for the future of the small town of Grandview, as the temperature soars. As usual, Lancaster paints his pictures of the locale and his characters beautifully. He even gives us a little mystery to solve. I very much enjoyed reading this one, and look forward to whatever Craig Lancaster writes in the future.

Thanks to Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing for providing a copy for an unbiased review.

This is What I Want is a family saga compressed into the events of one weekend in a small Montana town. The Kelvig family are entwined in the life of Grandview, especially when it comes to the 'Jamboree' weekend, which prodigal, gay, son Samuel returns for. The complex and broken relationships within the family are set against a backdrop of both small town celebration, and threats to small-town Western life from outsiders and oil. This all makes for an enthralling, combustive combination, which gripped me from the start. This is a book in which quite a lot happens, yet the focus is always on the characters, and I finished the book wanting to know more about all of them. Lancaster's writing is full of vivd descriptions, and I really enjoyed the multiple narrative perspectives, however they did make the book feel rather disjointed in places.