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The Forgotten Room
by Lauren Willig, Karen White, Beatriz Williams
Three alternating storylines, each told by a different author.
Olive's story takes place in 1892. Lucy's story is in 1920. Kate's in 1944.
All three women are tied together. Ironically, all three of them also lived in the same building.
Olive shows up at the mansion as a maid, trying to defend her father's honor. But she falls in love with Harry, the son of her employer at the mansion.
Lucy is living at the mansion, which is now a home for respectable women. She works at a law office and she is trying to figure out whether Harry was her real father.
Meanwhile, she finds herself choosing between two men who have both declared their live for her.
Kate is a doctor. She works at a building that was formerly the mansion/ formerly the home for respectable women. She also lives at the hospital because she's there so often that it doesn't make sense to rent anywhere.
One day Kate meets a mysterious man, with a painting of a woman who looks just like her. The woman is even wearing a necklace that belongs to Kate. The man sees this woman as his muse.
I found the story interesting and I'd been itching to read it. I've read Kate White books before but hadn't read Beatriz Williams or Lauren Willig and have been building a TBR pile of their books.
I know each other wrote different characters but I'm not sure who wrote which.
I found the book distracting in the regard that I was always trying to guess who was related. Then I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to have figured it out, or whether I was supposed to just relax and let the book explain it in some big reveal.
The reason this was distracting to me was because I was just trying to figure out how it would work out that Kate and her love interest were not related.
Thank God they weren't lol
Can you imagine? That's not a twist I wanted.
Anyway, I did figure it out before getting to the answer in the book, and I'm ok with that.
There were so many coincidences between these characters' lives that the twist actually makes sense for them.
Olive's story takes place in 1892. Lucy's story is in 1920. Kate's in 1944.
All three women are tied together. Ironically, all three of them also lived in the same building.
Olive shows up at the mansion as a maid, trying to defend her father's honor. But she falls in love with Harry, the son of her employer at the mansion.
Lucy is living at the mansion, which is now a home for respectable women. She works at a law office and she is trying to figure out whether Harry was her real father.
Meanwhile, she finds herself choosing between two men who have both declared their live for her.
Kate is a doctor. She works at a building that was formerly the mansion/ formerly the home for respectable women. She also lives at the hospital because she's there so often that it doesn't make sense to rent anywhere.
One day Kate meets a mysterious man, with a painting of a woman who looks just like her. The woman is even wearing a necklace that belongs to Kate. The man sees this woman as his muse.
I found the story interesting and I'd been itching to read it. I've read Kate White books before but hadn't read Beatriz Williams or Lauren Willig and have been building a TBR pile of their books.
I know each other wrote different characters but I'm not sure who wrote which.
I found the book distracting in the regard that I was always trying to guess who was related. Then I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to have figured it out, or whether I was supposed to just relax and let the book explain it in some big reveal.
The reason this was distracting to me was because I was just trying to figure out how it would work out that Kate and her love interest were not related.
Thank God they weren't lol
Can you imagine? That's not a twist I wanted.
Anyway, I did figure it out before getting to the answer in the book, and I'm ok with that.
There were so many coincidences between these characters' lives that the twist actually makes sense for them.