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Joy Lanzendorfer

Autor/a de Right Back Where We Started from

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Vira has absolutely no character development. Says all she wants is a nice husband, house, and family. But she chafes at anything her husband does. Sits too wide. She views him as pulling her to her knees on the wagon stairs to look up at him and feels humiliated. She somehow didn't know he wanted to move to Cali Gold Rush, although everyone was talking about it at the party he was at when they met. Also , says she wants to be an obedient wife like her mom but just can't. Doesn't jive with earlier statement about "all she wants".… (més)
 
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Desiree_Reads | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Aug 31, 2021 |
This novel followed three women, all in the same family for decades as each had hardships and went through life. I like how the author wrote these characters and the storyline bounced between them all, it was almost like reading three books in one with the separate story lines that do all come together.

Vira crossed the Great Plains in a wagon train with her husband hoping to strick it rich in the West, the land of the gold. Although a bit late to the start, he was determined that they would make it rich and there was gold to be found, but along the way Vira gets more and more worried that maybe this wasn’t what she thought she was signing up for when she married Elmer.

Mabel grew up far from what her mother did, and knows nothing much of being poor or learning how to live with what you have. But Mabel is not quite understanding of why her mother can often be the way she is and makes a fateful decision one night that costs her everything. Everything that she works for the rest of her life trying to get back.

Sandra headed to Hollywood, she is going to make it big as an actress. She is sick of following around, what she considered her deadbeat husband and his band. She didn’t sign up for that type of life and she wants to live like the rich do. She wants the mansion on the hill, the lavish fur coats, and to dine with the elite through special invitation only. But as the Depression finally grips Hollywood her dreams are struck down yet again.

These three women all have hardships, and yet there is a common theme that runs through all of their lives. Often you hear of the recycle repeating with each generation, and this story is a great example of how the apple often does not fall too far from the tree no matter how hard we work at breaking from it.

Thank you to the author for the free book, and Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours for the invite, I liked this historical fiction in that it touched on various historical events through history and how these women lived through them with their different perspectives.
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Chelz286 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | May 2, 2021 |

Estadístiques

Obres
1
Membres
15
Popularitat
#708,120
Valoració
2.8
Ressenyes
2
ISBN
6