Author: Holly Tierney-Bedord

How many generations of women can you fit into one book? This one follows periods of time in the lives of four generations of women either living in or from Sweet Hollow, Louisiana.

Jumping around between time periods and each of the women’s stories made me wish for a more linear narrative but I felt I got a sense of each of the main characters. New characters popped up throughout the book and it often took awhile before you found out where they fit into the overall story.

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Author: Ann Cleeves

This is the first book in the Shetland series, although it isn’t the first Shetland book I’ve read. It is also the basis of the first Shetland series that we’ve seen on Netflix.

This book introduces the entire crew, as well as the elusive woman who will become Perez’s wife. I say elusive because she didn’t appear in any of the Netflix shows and I know at some point she is murdered. I’ll keep reading until I find some answers.

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Author: Heather O’Neill

Pierrot and Rose are orphans who were housed at the same orphanage in Montreal. They each have a special talent for entertaining and as they grow up they fall in love.

When they leave the system they lose touch with one another but never forget their love. After several years they reconnect and go on to big things in the entertainment (and drug) industry.

Although the author is Canadian and has won a number of awards I can’t say that I enjoyed this book.

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Author: Yangtze Choo

This is the second book I’ve read from Reese Witherspoon’s picks. I was amazed that our library had it and that it only took a couple of weeks for it to be available to me. I didn’t like the first one I read from her list so I was a bit hesitant on this one.

Jilin and her step-brother Shin are named for two of the five virtues of Confucius. When Ren reveals that he and his dead twin are also name after the virtues you know you will eventually find the fifth virtue. All through the book their lives are connected either physically or in dreams.

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