This is perhaps a 3.5 star-book for me. And I'm not sure I would call it a novel; rather a set of short stories that are linked together by location, and family. There were some chapters that were truly outstanding, five-start stories: the first - Target Practice, Missing Pieces, Talisman. And others that I found awkward and cliched: the last one - Tears of the Gods, Wake, Many Waters.
I liked the spread of time from 1876 to 2143, but because the people were related and there were a lot of them, the author decided (or agreed) to put in a family tree. I had to refer to this a lot and sometimes it of course acted as a spoiler. There's one chapter where it's not clear at first if she will end up with her husband or leave him for another man. When I looked at the family tree to work out how she fitted in with everyone, it was clear that she ends up with the other man because he father's her children.
Patchy, but I'll definitely look out for whatever Sara Taylor writes next.