pickWhew! It‘s been too long since I‘ve been here. What can I say, life happened. I‘m taking a pass on a number of books that I read, but I just finished this and loved it. It‘s a bit different from Quinn‘s other books, more of an ensemble, multi-thread story. Wonderful characters and set at an interesting time in history. Definitely 5⭐️
panNope. Christmas cosy this is not. It goes hard on the malice; a family group reunited for Christmas, but why they are reuniting is the question given their most tenuous of familial ties and their constant sniping. Constant, exhausting sniping. There were some interesting threads but not enough to give me Christmas cheer. (However I enjoyed the cover although I‘m not sure Meg Mason and I read the same book. This is NOT comparable to the Cazalets!)
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pick5 ⭐.
Friendship and family, war-time 1950's,
some abuse, some art, some communism, some gangster, some women's baseball leagues...a little bit of slit of stuff.
This will probably be my next pic for my f2f bookclub.
pickI love Kate Quinn, bar none. I‘ve enjoyed all of her books, and this is no exception. There are a few things that kept it from being a favorite: there are just too many characters (the house is even a character, which I actually liked, but come on) and she tried to fit almost too much cultural and political history into the narrative which made it really long and sometimes hard to keep up with. That all being said her characters were well drawn ⬇️
