Three Wishes

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When I gradually realized that this was a story revolving around a focal point - a fatal day - I was hooked, and even though we are told the big twist towards the middle I was hooked throughout. Already from the very first pages I could sense that these characters were lively and the descriptions on point. She has written nine novels, including the New York Times best sellers Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, which were adapted into television series for HBO and Hulu, respectively. It is a character study, no doubt about it, so for those who need action to keep them interested, TMG may not work well.

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The events of the evening are told from the perspective of other witnesses, but everyone agrees that Cat accuses the other two of ruining her life and throws a fondue fork that lodges in Gemma’s pregnant abdomen. This is the third Liane Moriarty novel I've read in less than a month, and even I'm surprised at how quickly I've become one of her biggest fans. I genuinely want to get on the Moriarty fanwagon, but I think it's time I admit her style is not one that draws me in, even if her titles and premises do. Even when you do find out what the "event" was (at about the halfway point), you need to continue reading to the end of the novel to find out the full outcome of this event on each character involved. Bored stiff, Petronella decides to turn Earth—the preferred holiday destination of the Globagaskarian—into a rubbish dump.

Now, wrapping a towel around her, her mouth minty with Listerine (tonight was most definitely first kiss time), she went dripping down the hallway into her bedroom to choose her most unsexy, unmatching underwear so she wouldn’t be tempted to sleep with him too soon. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. It is while at Honeyville Primary School that he meets Nicola Berry, an ordinary girl about to begin a mission that is far from ordinary. That was a unique device that gave additional insights about the family interactions and it really worked for me.

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It was an extremely character driven novel which I can only assume is a Moriarty trademark by reading reviews of her other work. The basic thrust of this story is that three couples get together for a barbecue and SOMETHING BAD happens at the barbecue that creates new fault lines in their relationships. Moriarty's goal here seems to have been to examine how guilt drives us: feeling guilty about the decisions we've made that maybe didn't pan out the way we'd hoped, the weight of expectations and the fear that we might not live up to them, the regret we feel over actions we might not have even meant to take.I'll also make a plug for the marvelous audiobook narrator Caroline Lee, who has beautifully performed the three Moriarty books I've read, and I love her work so much I plan to download her other audiobooks just because she's the narrator. Based on my own personal reading experience, the incident isn't shocking at all because once it's laid out for you, you'll realize it isn't anything you didn't already know about. The story follows three triplet sisters, in their thirties, who all have very different personalities and outlooks on life and explores how their complex relationships with each other withstand all the dramas that life throws at them.