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The Forgotten Room
by Lauren Willig, Karen White, Beatriz Williams
Reader, I will confess that I anticipated this book for months before its release, but with one thing and another, I did not have the opportunity to give this book the attention I knew it would need for several months. Gladly, I found my space recently, and finished.
The Forgotten Room is a the rare case where three unique writes have created a single, seamless story of three generations of women. It was fun to guess who wrote which part, and there are little clues, if you look carefully enough.
The story is, at its core, about the decision each of the women makes about true love and about how much of her story to share with her daughter. While the reader gets continual glimpses at the exact dilemma each will face, the story is told in alternating perspectives, not chronologically, so we are kept guessing until the last chapters.
Reader, I admit that the relationships and the family tree can get a small bit intimidating, but that is mostly due to the undulating perspectives. Frankly, told in a chronological order, the story would be more, well, straightforward, but then, we wouldn't see the patterns and cycles of these women's lives as clearly. Using the changing perspectives, we know what choice each woman will make (even before we know why), but we keep cheering for the one we wish her to make. That's writer's magic, and in this book, threefold over.
I received the Advanced Uncorrected Proof for free through Goodreads Giveaways, and so was encouraged to review it, however this did not influence what I wrote in my review.
The Forgotten Room is a the rare case where three unique writes have created a single, seamless story of three generations of women. It was fun to guess who wrote which part, and there are little clues, if you look carefully enough.
The story is, at its core, about the decision each of the women makes about true love and about how much of her story to share with her daughter. While the reader gets continual glimpses at the exact dilemma each will face, the story is told in alternating perspectives, not chronologically, so we are kept guessing until the last chapters.
Reader, I admit that the relationships and the family tree can get a small bit intimidating, but that is mostly due to the undulating perspectives. Frankly, told in a chronological order, the story would be more, well, straightforward, but then, we wouldn't see the patterns and cycles of these women's lives as clearly. Using the changing perspectives, we know what choice each woman will make (even before we know why), but we keep cheering for the one we wish her to make. That's writer's magic, and in this book, threefold over.
I received the Advanced Uncorrected Proof for free through Goodreads Giveaways, and so was encouraged to review it, however this did not influence what I wrote in my review.