Title: Sisterland
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Summary: Kate and Violet, twin sisters, have known since they were little that they were different because of their "senses". Kate has ignored her skills and has focused on a suburban life near St. Louis raising her kids with her husband. Violet, the more eccentric of the sisters, has used her skills to make a living. When Violet senses that a major earthquake is coming to St. Louis, the sisters are reunited and Kate is torn between shunning her sister and quietly wondering that Violet may be right.
Review: I read this book a few months ago but I'm behind on my reviews. However, even when I'm behind I start the draft and put my rating in and then come back to it. When I came upon this draft I couldn't remember what the book was about at first. I knew it was about identical twin sisters but I couldn't recall any details beyond that. When I reread the summary online I thought, "huh, only three stars? Because this was considered to be one of the best novels of 2014." However, I am always wary of those raves. What can I say? I'm a skeptic. I thought about upping the rating to four stars but I can't really remember what happens in the end, so clearly it wasn't memorable enough for my terrible memory. I guess this book was good enough? I think I liked it, but the inability to remember why leaves me at three stars.
Time to write:4:11
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Friday, October 17, 2014
Book review: A Circle of Wives
Title: A Circle of Wives
Author: Alice LaPlante
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Summary: Dr. John Taylor, a successful plastic surgeon, is discovered dead in a hotel room. The autopsy reveals his death wasn't accidental. His funeral brings together his three wives. Not his two exes and a current wife--his three current wives. It turns out that he was a bigamist. Stranger still, his first wife knew about and encouraged the two additional marriages. Needless to say, several people have motives for why they'd be angry enough to kill Dr. Taylor.
Rating: This book was intended to be sort of a palate cleanser for me. It seems like my last few reads have been on the intense and/or serious side, and I wanted a break from that. This was seemingly a good choice for that, but it was like I was expecting a mango sorbet but got lemon sorbet instead. It's fine, it's just not what I really, really wanted. There wasn't a lot of depth to the characters. I had a hard time keeping the wives straight, too. Also, the detective was the usual cliche--are detectives ever happy people? I'd like to see a book about a happy go lucky detective with a happy home life. Is that too much to ask?
Author: Alice LaPlante
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Summary: Dr. John Taylor, a successful plastic surgeon, is discovered dead in a hotel room. The autopsy reveals his death wasn't accidental. His funeral brings together his three wives. Not his two exes and a current wife--his three current wives. It turns out that he was a bigamist. Stranger still, his first wife knew about and encouraged the two additional marriages. Needless to say, several people have motives for why they'd be angry enough to kill Dr. Taylor.
Rating: This book was intended to be sort of a palate cleanser for me. It seems like my last few reads have been on the intense and/or serious side, and I wanted a break from that. This was seemingly a good choice for that, but it was like I was expecting a mango sorbet but got lemon sorbet instead. It's fine, it's just not what I really, really wanted. There wasn't a lot of depth to the characters. I had a hard time keeping the wives straight, too. Also, the detective was the usual cliche--are detectives ever happy people? I'd like to see a book about a happy go lucky detective with a happy home life. Is that too much to ask?
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