Winter Garden is not the first Kristin Hannah book I've read, and sadly it wasn't my favorite. Based on reviews many readers have loved this book, so if you think it's your type of story then give it a shot. The upside: I enjoyed most of the 'fairy tale' part of the book. I wasn't at all familiar ...
I'm done. I'm not reviewing this. It got better toward the end, thank God. But my thoughts on this are that I have enough mommy issues in real life. I certainly don't need to add someone else's. I still wanted to throat punch people by the end, but not as badly. Still, too many mommy issues.
Four stars, five stars, I'm not sure what to rate this. I think it's four and a half stars. Winter Garden is basically broken into two stories. The "present day" story (that's really 2000/2001) is filled with some seriously frustrating people. It's hard to understand why Meredith responds (or doesn'...
An emotionally gripping, heart tugging and powerful story with multiple relationships about love and the choices we make. I cried a few times throughout. Meredith and Nina. at their fathers death bed. promise to listen to their estranged mothers 'fairy tale' about war-torn Leningrad under Stalin's...
The beginning was a little slow. I almost feel that the side stories of the daughters was a distraction. I would have liked it more if the book would have concentrated more on the mother-daughters relationship. There was a lot of emphasis on Meredith's and Nina's relationships with the men in the...
Evan Whitson has always been the one to hold his family together. Upon his deathbed, he makes his wife, Anya, promise to tell their grown daughters, Meredith and Nina, the rest of a Russian fairy tale she once had started telling them when they were children, a request which befuddles them and turn...
I would give this book 3 1/2 stars if that was an option. I thought the first half of the book was tedious. It went on and on with the problems of Meredith and Nina, the unloved daughters of Anya. No matter what they did, they could not get love or recognition from their Russian mother. Before th...
This book made me cry. On the surface it's a book about two sisters - Meredith and Nina Whitson, but underneath, this book is so much more. It's about surviving in cold Leningrad during World War II.First half of the book is slightly boring, it's about Meredith and Nina, their lives; not much happe...
The first 150 pages were slow. The sisters were constantly bickering with each other, one was always jogging and the other taking pictures with her camera. Then finally the younger sister Nina was able to break through her cold hearted mother's defenses (with the help of some vodka) and get her talk...
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