November Book Review

This month I'm reviewing Liane Moriarty's Three Wishes.  This is the third of Ms. Moriarty's books that I have read.  It is her debut book and I have to say, it is my favorite one so far. 

It tells the story of triplet sisters, their lives and loves and the secrets they keep from one another.  The story starts in a restaurant with three LOUD women at a table with three individual cakes.  Other diners have complained about the trio but the women only get louder until an argument erupts and a fondue fork ends up in the stomach of the pregnant woman at the table and another one collapses on the restaurant floor.  At the time you have no idea who the women are or that they're triplets and the author cleverly relays details leading up to the incident through animated accounts from the other patrons of the restaurant as they tell others about what happened.  That's what draws you into the story - wanting to know who these women are and what exactly happened.

Then you're taken to roughly a year before the incident to reveal exactly what lead to that scene in the restaurant.  But somewhere along the way, I became more interested in the women themselves and their lives.  Yes, you do get to know what lead up to the event but I also became invested in the characters.  And as is typical for Liane Moriarty's books, there are layers of secrets that come to light, not just the "big reveal" you think is going to happen.

This was another one of those books that I didn't want to put down.  I essentially read it in one sitting because I wanted to find out what happened next.  Also, this book seemed a bit less complicated than the other books of hers that I've read.  In the others there were large casts of characters that are connected in ways that you don't know until the end of the book.  Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the books or I wouldn't be reading other books by this author but, some get pretty complicated.  This book is about the triplets and their lives and relationships.  I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it.

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