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stephaniesteen73's review against another edition
3.0
A fun, entertaining read - nothing incredibly deep here but an engaging story.
anna3101's review against another edition
1.0
This is on of those rare books I was quite happy to be finally done with. Normally I sympathize with the characters and wish them well.. in this case, however, most of them were behaving so stupidly and were so irritating, that I'd gladly erase them myself from the surface of the fictional world :) Whenever another disaster was to fall upon another hopeless example of how not to live one's life, I was about to shout "Serves you right!".
Honestly, just how boring and irritating a book can be??
Honestly, just how boring and irritating a book can be??
dwm_1040's review against another edition
1.0
While I have enjoyed a number of Binchy's books, this one was just annoying. I couldn't get behind any character, the story just trudged on and finally ended.
littletaiko's review against another edition
3.0
Sort of a bleak novel about a 25th wedding anniversary. The chapters are each from a different persons point of view, one of the children, someone from the wedding, or the couple themselves. At the end it’s a chapter about the anniversary celebration with everyone previously met there. The chapter with Helen was the absolute worse. Even the later chapters with her in them didn’t help. I suppose like in real life there were some people who were easier to root for than others. I did like that some characters finally got their acts together at the end.
wendiwoo1's review against another edition
2.0
I wasn't too impressed with this one. This is my first Maeve Binchy novel and it fell flat for me. If she wanted to have so many complex characters, then she should have made it an epic, like The Thornbirds, or else cut some people out and let us really get to know the juicy details. Each character was a novel in itself. It's a shame she didn't let them develop more because there were some great issues brewing there. At the end, nothing really changed for the good or the bad. It was very anti-climatic.
grainne_g12's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape
booksforbrooks's review against another edition
2.0
This felt like a collection of short stories rather than a cohesive novel about a family. Every time I started to care about a character, their chapter ended and they weren't seen again until the end. Boring boring boring.