didn't love it, didn't hate it...

In the book "Carry the One" by Carol Anshaw, the book opens at the wedding of Carmen and Matt.

At end of the party a carload of people, including Carmen's brother Nick and sister Alice plus their guests, leave the party.  They are all a bit drunk and stoned and while driving on a dark, secluded road, the car hits a girl and kills her.

The tale revolves around the siblings, Carmen, Nick and Alice and how they lives are forever changes by the death of the girl.

not the best of the bunch...

I finished reading "The Gilly Salt Sisters" by Tiffany Baker about a week ago and have been sitting on how I feel about it.  When I first started it, I found it a bit boring and thought it would be hard to get through.  I did finish it, and there were parts I liked, but on the whole I found the book rather dull.  There were parts that were dramatic, but in my opinion fell short.

The book follows the Gilly sisters, Claire and Jo, and the salt marsh where they live and work.

I read other reviews and I seem to be the only one who didn't love the book.  I am interested in finding out how others feel...

heartfelt and heartless...

I just finished "Another Piece of my Heart" by Jane Green.  I really liked it.  I think I have read most everything by this author and this one I quite enjoyed.

Andi gets married late in life, late in her 30's, to Ethan, a wonderful man with two children.  All Andi ever wanted to be was a mom, so she was so excited to take on that roll.  Sophia who is 8 years old is a wonderfully sweet and loving girl, happy to have Andi around, but Emily is difficult at age 12 and always resents Andi for marrying her dad.

Emily continues to spiral out of control and Andi cannot take the way Emily acts towards her and  contemplates walking away from her life with Ethan.

So much goes on in the story.  The characters are so real, in such pain that you can feel what they feel.  There is a lot of joy as well within this family and through all the ups and downs I wanted to route for each and every one of them.