by Rebecca Wells, Judith Ivey
This book is terrible. While it is interesting to see more of the lives of the characters of Divine Secrets this book just jumps around and doesn't have the main storyline to hold the various stories together, or make us care about what we are reading. [spoiler] As a note don't take less than 5...
3.5 stars. I liked this one a lot better than Ya Ya Sisterhood. The family drama was kind of heartbreaking with moments of hilarity.
This is such an incredible story of a crazy mother and daughter relationship. It has a very colorful cast of great southern characters who ring true to what it's really like to live and hail from the South. I know Vivi is very dysfunctional as a mother but I was drawn to her none the less. I love th...
After 100 pages I had to give up on this. Maybe I have a beef with stories about dysfunctional Southern families. No, that's not true. I love Flannery O'Connor. And anyone who perused my book list knows I do not shy away from the darker aspects of life...or from very dark comedies, which I think thi...
Started out good, but the adult perspectives were a bit too whiny for me.
This book read more like a bunch of short stories than a novel - which is okay of course, but I'm not all that much into short stories, so I didn't find it as captivating as I probably would have otherwise. I'm glad I read "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" and saw the movie first, otherwise I...
Dysfunctional family tales
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