Interesting concepts, many themes which hit close to home. The characters were real, but difficult to like. But they were well-written, as was the book. I'd be interested to read more from this author.

I quite liked this book. It took me a while to get used to the point of view used by the author; being a disembodied composite of the three sisters. However, after coming to grips with this unusual style, I liked it. It easily told me, the reader, what is happening not only in a more or less physical foreground, but in the minds of the sisters.

The sisters are very different as is often the case with the first born being the conservative organizer and care giver through to the younger who spends her life rebelling and learning what life has to offer, somewhat to her detriment.

It is a complex story with attitudes of the family toward each other and to themselves changing to their mutual improvement.

I can wholeheartedly recommend this book. A great beach read; should you be so fortunate to find yourself on a beach with time to read.

The author was contradictory at times, and could be quite wordy, by overall a good read.

This book would have absolutely gotten 5 stars had they not decided to freely use the F word during the last 4th of the book. This was one of the better books I have ever read, the narration was very interesting. The book is about 3 sisters and is narrated by the whole of them----almost like they are a 4th person. Really well done.

When the book began, I wasn't sure I would be able to keep the three sisters and their stories straight. Instead, I was swallowed up by their world. The story was written so vividly that I felt like I was watching a movie. Each sister's predicament was unique, as was her personality and the way she chose to cope with things. My favorite aspect of the novel was what I thought was the most unique - the story is told in a strange first person/third person hybrid that I have never read before. Each sister is referred to by name: Rose, Bean, and Cordy. Yet they are "our" sisters, "we" live with "our" mother and father, etc. It was very interesting to be part of the story, yet always on the outskirts. You were never a specific sister, but you were in the family somehow.

Book Club. No likable characters. Predictable. Gimmicks. However, the person who recommended this book to me is an exceptional woman, so probably I am a terrible person for not liking it.

The roles each child member of this happy family learned when all were young now pinch like too tight shoes. Finally grown up and generally educated, with the added irony that their father is a scholar of Shakespeare (that ultimate expert in human nature), the sisters now hate the established childhood roles they are still clinging to, but all feel as if they'd be betraying the family for wanting to change. Avoiding the question of who they really are and holding onto the image of themselves in their familial roles, they fly out of their home after becoming adults and make disastrous life choices.

When their mother gets breast cancer, it becomes a time for introspection for each sister. They all need space to find out why their personal lives are going so wrong, and so they each are grateful for the excuse of their mother's cancer to move back home.

Each sister is forced by her failures to grow up and accept who she really is, and why, and why she has to change. People tend to evolve so what was once true for the women as girls can no longer be sustained as years pass and reality changes the inner child's beliefs and needs. The book is a sweet story reminiscent of 1950's TV shows but with the modern and eternal dilemmas of becoming adult beings.

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Moves somewhat slowly, however a good read about family and expectations and dynamics especially between sisters. Quite a bit of Shakespear quotes and references -- I tended to like the Cordilla character the most. Overall a good read, not a great read but a good one.

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I'm one of those people who jumps on a book and has to read it if its characters are people who love to read. And "Weird Sisters" is a catchy name... However, the book itself is not so much. When the word "weird" and Shakespeare are in the same story, I'd expected something more different and surprising, but I wasn't able to find it.


Weird Sisters' father is a Shakespeare professor at a university in Barnwell, Ohio. Shakespeare is so much in the Andreas family's life that they even quote him frequently in their daily conversations. Take the girls' names, for example: Bianca, Cordelia and Roselyn. Cordelia is a mathematics teacher at a university, having never left Barnwell. Bianca and Cordelia, on the other hand, have left as soon as they got the chance to. When they find out their mother has breast cancer, they all get together at home in Barnwell whether they like it or not. Of course, they all bring their baggage with them.


What we read throughout the story is the girls rediscovering one another and trying to get their lives in some sort of order. What they live through isn't anything too interesting, really. The book was bearable only because it feels close to real life, emotional and easy to read.


The most interesting part of the book was the narration. I'm not even sure I understood who was really telling the story. It was going back and forth between the three sisters, referring to them as "we" most of the time. But then, when all three of them were in the picture, and the narrator said "we," I was lost. In the end, I just continued reading ignoring who was telling the story.


If you're looking for a feel-good book, then you can give this a shot. If you don't care for Shakespeare, I suggest you stay away from it.