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The Forgotten Room
by Lauren Willig, Karen White, Beatriz Williams
This book was a lovely surprise. I expected to enjoy it, as I've read other books by two of the three authors. But I really, REALLY enjoyed this triple story and am so glad I finally got around to reading it [it was on my TBR for ages].
I enjoy dual-timeline stories when they are done well. This book delivered, not two, but three separate but connected time- and storylines, with three different female protagonists. All of the women were very different, but I so liked each one of them, and enjoyed going along on their journeys as they discovered their family histories, and learned how they were connected by a Beaux Arts mansion in Manhatten.
The three authors here must have thoroughly collaborated in how this book was written, because if you didn't know that three separate authors wrote it, you would never know. The three stories flow, inter-connect and shift back on themselves effortlessly and seamlessly. This feels like one really great story about three generations of women, which it is, but the fact that three authors collaborated to write this makes it, to me, even more impressive. I loved this book from first page to last!
If you like strong female characters dealing with the difficulties life throws at them, turn-of-the century New York [the descriptions of the city and its events is a well-done extra feature of this book] and multiple time-line stories interconnecting in interesting ways, I highly recommend this book!
I enjoy dual-timeline stories when they are done well. This book delivered, not two, but three separate but connected time- and storylines, with three different female protagonists. All of the women were very different, but I so liked each one of them, and enjoyed going along on their journeys as they discovered their family histories, and learned how they were connected by a Beaux Arts mansion in Manhatten.
The three authors here must have thoroughly collaborated in how this book was written, because if you didn't know that three separate authors wrote it, you would never know. The three stories flow, inter-connect and shift back on themselves effortlessly and seamlessly. This feels like one really great story about three generations of women, which it is, but the fact that three authors collaborated to write this makes it, to me, even more impressive. I loved this book from first page to last!
If you like strong female characters dealing with the difficulties life throws at them, turn-of-the century New York [the descriptions of the city and its events is a well-done extra feature of this book] and multiple time-line stories interconnecting in interesting ways, I highly recommend this book!