Books like Early Warning

The problem with writing a series that tracks a family over successive generations is that your characters tend to multiply, and it gets harder and harder to make each new person as persuasive and realized a human. But the necessity of giving everyone screen time means that many of the characters that readers of the first book know and love are crowded out or pushed into the background. The episodic structure continues to work well, and there are lots of things to like about this book, but it also felt like a bit of a slog at times, and was overall much less compelling than the first one. Won't stop me from reading the third one though...