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A review by meme_too2
Sonoma Rose by Jennifer Chiaverini
1.0
This book was a huge disappointment. First of all it isn't a book about quilts or quilt-loving people, like all the rest have been. Second, the heroine was a moronic idiot. She didn't have any character at all.
Rose has a childhood friend who she refuses to marry because he drinks too much. So, instead she ends up marrying a wife-beater. Her first and fifth child come from her childhood, drunk-but-still-a-good-man sweetheart. The other six children have celiac disease and it takes her forever to figure out how to save her dying children. She knows they don't get sick when they eat corn tortillas, but she feeds them white bread because the doctor said so, like a good little soldier.
Is it okay that she takes a lover, but stays with her abusive husband? What kind of loser is she?? Finally, she runs away from her husband and hides in the canyon during a rainstorm, taking her sick children with her. Really?????
She and her sweetheart, and the children, finally run away to wine country in the middle of prohibition. No one is making money, but these wobegones are hired anyway. They accept charity even though they are sitting on a suitcase of bootlegger cash, which they eventually buy a winery with. Hello--your sweetheart is an alcoholic! Then Rose, who is as weak as a character can be starts making deals with bootleggers.
It’s fine if a main character isn’t likable, but she has to be believable, and I just didn’t believe Rose and any of her circumstances.
Wow! Jennifer completely lost it with this book!
Rose has a childhood friend who she refuses to marry because he drinks too much. So, instead she ends up marrying a wife-beater. Her first and fifth child come from her childhood, drunk-but-still-a-good-man sweetheart. The other six children have celiac disease and it takes her forever to figure out how to save her dying children. She knows they don't get sick when they eat corn tortillas, but she feeds them white bread because the doctor said so, like a good little soldier.
Is it okay that she takes a lover, but stays with her abusive husband? What kind of loser is she?? Finally, she runs away from her husband and hides in the canyon during a rainstorm, taking her sick children with her. Really?????
She and her sweetheart, and the children, finally run away to wine country in the middle of prohibition. No one is making money, but these wobegones are hired anyway. They accept charity even though they are sitting on a suitcase of bootlegger cash, which they eventually buy a winery with. Hello--your sweetheart is an alcoholic! Then Rose, who is as weak as a character can be starts making deals with bootleggers.
It’s fine if a main character isn’t likable, but she has to be believable, and I just didn’t believe Rose and any of her circumstances.
Wow! Jennifer completely lost it with this book!