Book Talk | Three Wishes by Liane Morairty

 This book has been sitting on my shelf on my TBR pile, and I finally made some time for it. If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you may know that I am a big Liane Moriarty fan. This is the fifth book I've read from her and I was excited to find out it was her very first one! Here's my full book review on Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty.

About the Author

After leaving school, Liane worked in advertising and marketing and did a business degree. She became quite corporate for a while and wore big-shouldered suits and fretted about the size of her office. She eventually left her position as marketing manager to run her own (not especially successful) business called The Little Ad Agency. After that she worked as a (more successful, thankfully) freelance advertising copywriter, writing everything from websites and TV commercial to the back of the Sultana Bran box.

Liane Moriarty acquired her Masters degree at Macquarie University in Sydney. As part of that degree, she wrote her first novel, Three Wishes. It went on to be published around the world. Since then she has written eight more novels: The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, The Husband’s Secret, Big Little Lies, Truly Madly Guilty, Nine Perfect Strangers and Apples Never Fall, as well as the Nicola Berry series for children. She is forever grateful to her sister Jaci for being published first.

About the Story

Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow them. But apart, each is dealing with their own share of ups and downs.

Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, Cat has just learned a startling secret about her marriage, and Gemma, who bolts every time a relationship hits the six-month mark, holds out hope for lasting love. In this wise, witty, and hilarious novel, we follow the Kettle sisters through their tumultuous thirty-third year as they deal with sibling rivalry and secrets, revelations and relationships, unfaithful husbands and unthinkable decisions, and the fabulous, frustrating life of forever being part of a trio.

 

Book Talk

This is a very slice-of-life book that I feel people who like a book that incorporates drama and the happenings of the lives of women will appreciate and love to read. Those who don’t, I would not recommend, not because it’s not a good read, but because it may not appeal to every reader. But for those of you who do, you will probably take a liking to this book.

Our main characters, though triplets, are very distinct. I loved that the author chose to focus on one of the triplets for each chapter. This created a dynamic way of looking at the same situation, but in three ways. Our characters are also very relatable in the way they interact with one another and with other characters.

Another recurring perspective we get to see is from strangers who happen to spot the triplets at some point in their lives. This gives us the feeling that we can impact random people in everyday life, even if it’s just a nice, small memory, kind of like this book.

I will say, the book came out in 2004, and it very much shows. There are a few mentions of the R word throughout the story, which took me aback for a moment, but then I had to remember that at the time, it was completely acceptable/not looked down upon by greater society. Therefore, I do give it a pass, and I have not seen that word used in any of our authors’ other works as of yet, so again, a product of its time that has since seemed to be corrected.

Overall, this is a nice book to read when you want to slow down and take in some life for a bit. If you’re into movies like Now and Then, where it’s a coming-of-age story about a group of girls, then you’ll like this changing-of-life story about a band of 30-year-old sisters who may not agree with everything each other does, but love just the same, then you’ll like this one (sorry for that long sentence).

Until next time, Happy Reading!