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A review by victoria_elena89
What Once Was True by Jean Grainger
3.0
An ok story, but it featured some editing errors and inconsistent plot points, in my opinion. Multiple times in this book there were issues with repeated sentences or paragraphs, with the same lines immediately following one another. I couldn't tell if the author meant it that way, or if they just never caught it during the cut/paste stage of editing, but I've never read a book with such proofreading issues.
The Murphy family was fantastic, Dermot and Isabella and their 3 daughters Eve, Aisling and Kate were well written characters, interesting, dynamic and had depth to them. Lady Kenefick was a laughable, clueless snobby woman, and her change in character at the end of the book was somewhat difficult to believe. The romance between a couple of daughters and their suitors/soon to be husbands were enjoyable stories, but a couple of the plot twists in the book felt like they didn't really have a point, or they didn't further the story. I only started feeling this book when I read about the unexpected death of a main character, but I don't know that it was necessary for the story.
The Murphy family was fantastic, Dermot and Isabella and their 3 daughters Eve, Aisling and Kate were well written characters, interesting, dynamic and had depth to them. Lady Kenefick was a laughable, clueless snobby woman, and her change in character at the end of the book was somewhat difficult to believe. The romance between a couple of daughters and their suitors/soon to be husbands were enjoyable stories, but a couple of the plot twists in the book felt like they didn't really have a point, or they didn't further the story. I only started feeling this book when I read about the unexpected death of a main character, but I don't know that it was necessary for the story.