21.   This is a workmanlike, even imaginative blend of a family saga and a standard police drama.

22.   This second volume of an absorbing family saga about a clan matchless in the annals of moneymaking has all the grandeur and sweep of a Victorian three-decker novel.

23.   What has been marketed as a novel within a novel could be better described as pulp fantasy within a romance novel within a dark family saga.

24.   Priestley attracted a wide following among the young crowd almost from the beginning of the Walsh family saga on the Fox TV network.

25.   Guare apparently intended to fashion Greek tragedy into a modern family saga, but he has failed to make his people interesting.

26.   Michael Schumacher is so far ahead of little brother Ralf this season that what used to be an exciting family saga is turning into a yawner.

27.   The three-part series chronicles the family saga.