Three Wishes ⭑⭑⭑⭒
Genre: Women’s Fiction
First Publication: 2004
Print: 388 pages
Audio: 11 hours 31 minutes
Confetti Rating: 3.5 stars
REVIEW:
Three reasons to read Three Wishes:
You’re a completest, like me. Having read all of Liane Moriarty’s other novels, it always bothered me that I wouldn’t honestly be able to rave, “I’ve read all your books!” if I ever ran into her at an airport or something. After reading this one - her first, originally published in 2004 - crisis averted!
You seek out Christmas books that aren’t overtly Christmasy. Much of the plot here takes place over the holidays, so the seasonal reader in me wished I had saved this to read in December.
Your favorite kind of writing is easy, yet insightful prose. Can any other author cut to the heart of honest human behavior quite as well as Liane Moriarty? Not in my book, which is why I’ve (now) read all of hers.
Three reasons to skip Three Wishes:
You like likeable characters. This is a novel about three twin sisters muddling through dramas in their early thirties (including adultery, infertility, and compulsive relationship sabotage), and I wouldn’t want to be friends with any of them.
You’re bothered by use of the “r word.” I don’t know if things weren’t quite as PC back in 2004, but these days it’s in pretty poor taste to toss around that slur as an insult to those you think have diminished mental capacities.
You want your reads to be memorable. I finished this a few days ago, and having already forgotten 90 percent of the book, I had to take the struggle bus to Review Town. Jeez, I sure wish I could remember things longer than three seconds.
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PUBLISHER SYNOPSIS:
Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Whenever they're together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow. But apart, each is very much her own woman, dealing with her own share of ups and downs. Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, juggling the many balls of work, marriage, and motherhood with expert precision, but is she as together as her datebook would have her seem? Cat has just learned a startling secret about her marriage - can she bring another life into her very precarious world? And can free-spirited Gemma, who bolts every time a relationship hits the six-month mark, ever hope to find lasting love?
In this wise, witty, hilarious new novel, we follow the Kettle sisters through their thirty-third-year, as they struggle to survive their divorced parents' dating each other, their technologically savvy grandmother, a cheating husband, champagne hangovers, and the fabulous, frustrating life of forever being part of a threesome. A family comedy about sibling rivalry, Three Wishes is an assured and warmhearted debut.