We Were Mothers

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A brilliant, twisty novel about a missing woman, an unfaithful husband, and the dark secrets that will destroy two perfect families.A scandalous revelation is about to devastate a picturesque town where the houses are immaculate and the neighborhoods are tightly knit Devoted mother Cora O Connell has found the journal of her friend Laurel s daughter a beautiful college student who lives next door revealing an illicit encounter Hours later, Laurel makes a shattering discovery of her own her daughter has vanished without a trace Over the course of one weekend, the crises of two close families are about to trigger a chain reaction that will expose a far disturbing web of secrets Now everything is at stake as they re forced to confront the lies they have told in order to survive. Download We Were Mothers – kino-fada.fr 1.5 STARSLately I ve done a terrible job choosing free Prime First Reads fromMy enjoyment of WE WERE MOTHERS was one star, but I think Katie Sise s novel is better than my enjoyment of it.Told from multiple points of view WE WERE MOTHERS is full of characters I didn t care about, heavy on plot of cheating and lies and slow to grab interest The writing isn t terrible, but never pulled me in None of the characters felt unique Sise did include twists and turns, some felt stilted, as if 1.5 STARSLately I ve done a terrible job choosing free Prime First Reads fromMy enjoyment of WE WERE MOTHERS was one star, but I think Katie Sise s novel is better than my enjoyment of it.Told from multiple points of view WE WERE MOTHERS is full of characters I didn t care about, heavy on plot of cheating and lies and slow to grab interest The writing isn t terrible, but never pulled ...Cora and her husband host a birthday party for their two year old twins, and things go downhill quickly afterwards Cora discovers a journal of her neighbor s daughter that reveals a secret Soon after, the neighbor s daughter goes missing As one weekend s events unravel, the lives of multiple families are changed The story opens with a birthday party for toddlers, where Cora has invited family and friends to celebrate her young children The guests include Cora s mother Sarah, her friend Jade Cora and her husband host a birthday party for their two year old twins, and things go downhill quickly afterwards Cora discovers a journal of her neighbor s daughter that reveals a secret Soon after, the neighbor s daughter goes missing As one weekend s events unravel, the lives of multiple families are changed The story opens with a birthday party for toddlers, where Cora has invited family and friends to celebrate her young children The guests include Cora s mother Sarah, her friend Jade, and her neighbor Laurel Each of these women has something going on in her life that they haven t been able to discuss with anyone else Central to the story is Cora, a married mom of toddler twins She lost her sister, Maggie, in a tragic accident years earlier, and still has tr...I struggled this month to choose my freeprime book because there seemed to be several good prospects I m slightly kicking myself that I went for We Were Mothers as I found it very ordinary and a bit disappointing The opening pace was SO slow that I really found myself checking other reviews to see if there was any prospect of it picking up I would say I was over a third of the way through before it became even slightly interesting I m not a fan of multi narrative stories at the bes I struggled this month to choose my freeprime book because there seemed to be several good prospect...Terrible I felt like I just read a screenplay for a really bad soap opera It was so bad I had to skim page after page because the dialogue and plot lines were so far fetched it literally felt like I was in a Days of our Lives storyline The author has potential but s...Desperately tries to be Big Little Lies and fails Awful characters, terrible plot and lousy writing.Author Not Ready For Adult Fiction Should Stay With YA AudienceMy 1st impression when I started reading was that the language was very stilted trite As I got further into the story, I became less pre occupied by the wording, andupset with the storyline, which I found inauthentic almost as if the author s motivation was not to create a good story or even to make a buck or two but to disgorge a bunch of her own personal ideas of what being a mother Should Mean crossed with a fixatio Author Not Ready For Adult Fiction Should Stay With YA AudienceMy 1st impression ...Dark secrets This is one of those stories that makes my heart hurt It s a cross between Desperate Housewives and Big Little Lies with a focus on the deadly power of secrets Each woman has a secret and they hold it in until everything explodes.It was an easy read that I finished in an afternoon It definitely held my interest but in the end it just felt like a LOT relative to the length and substance of the book I m not sure how to best describe itI was blown away by this book I expected a fluffy summer read, and instead found myself up all night unable to break myself from the suspense Not least, the setting of this book reminded me a little too much of the small town in which I live It makes me think twice about my neighbors and friendsCora and Sam Dash and Laurel Jade and Jeremy Sarah and Clarke Anna and Mira and Asher And then there s Maggie You have to absolutely be sure that you get the characters straight because this is one of those books that is told from different points of view But the one piece that ties all the main characters together is the death of Maggie This book started out slowly for me but it builds and picks up steam with each chapter In fact it picks up so much steam that it blows up at the end Cora and Sam Dash and Laurel Jade and Jeremy Sarah and Clarke Anna and Mira and Asher And then there s Maggie You have to absolutely be sure that you get the characters straight because this is one of those books that is told from different points of view But the one piece that ties all the main characters together is the death of Maggie This book started out slowly for me but it builds and picks up steam with each chapter In fact it picks up so much steam that it blows up at the end too many stories all collide to where it became a bit of an overload one denoueme...

We Were Mothers
  • English
  • 19 August 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 299 pages
  • Katie Sise
  • We Were Mothers