Three grown Southern sisters have ten marriages between them—and more loom on the horizon—when Ginger, the eldest, wonders if she’s the only one who hasn’t inherited what their family calls “the Grandma Gene”: the tendency to like the casualness of courtship better than the intimacy of marriage. Could it be that her two sisters are fated to serially marry, just like their seven-times wed grandmother, Mrs. Lillian Irene Harper Winslow Goldstein Carey James Bobrinski Gordon George?It takes a “girls only” weekend, closing up Grandma’s treasured beach house for the last time, for the sisters to really unpack their family baggage, examine their relationship DNA, and discover the true legacy their much-marrying grandmother left behind . . .
My thoughts: I'm on page 160, and while I'm not wowed yet by the story, I do find it to be interesting. This book made 4's and 5's on Amazon and "Top Pick" by one of my favorite reviewers so maybe I just need to keep reading. At first, I had trouble telling the sisters apart because they had the same voice. The character names at the beginning of the chapters didn't help and the font change indicating a different POV only annoyed me.
Like I mentioned, I'm going to keep reading because I want to know how these sisters turn out. Now that the story is set and the sisters are becoming distinct characters, I'm sure the story will pick up.
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Hiya CeeCee!
I liked this book...partly, I think, because I am one of three sisters. I also found it to be a bit eye-opening as I unfortunately saw myself in them. :(
Hope all is well with you and yours...*hugs*
I can't read Angela Hunt for those reasons. Not only does the POV always change in her books, but the tense often changes as well. Drives me nuts so I stopped reading her! Which is a bummer because her plots/premises usually sound good.
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It's hard when all of the characters sound the same.
One of my grandmother's was married for 5o+ years before my grandfather died. It's been almost 20 years and she's never looked at another man. My other grandmother lost her husband at a young age (37) and found a string of boyfriends to keep her busy. Really all the way until she passed away at 87. I look at the two and know both of their genes are in me ;) The book looks interesting.
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