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    Three Wishes: A Novel
    Three Wishes: A Novel
    Three Wishes: A Novel
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    Three Wishes: A Novel

    Written by Liane Moriarty

    Narrated by Heather Wilds

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    “Moriarty’s first novel, written with wisdom, humor, and sincerity, is an honest look at sisters who have a bond stronger than anything life throws their way.” — Booklist

    The funny, heartwarming, and completely charming first novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Nine Perfect Strangers and Big Little Lies.    

    Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Together, laughter, drama, and mayhem follow them, but apart, each is dealing with her own share of ups and downs.  

    Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, Cat has just learned a startling secret about her marriage, and Gemma, who bolts every time a relationship hits the six-month mark, holds out hope for lasting love. 

    In this wise, witty, and hilarious novel, we follow the Kettle sisters through their tumultuous thirty-third year as they deal with sibling rivalry and secrets, revelations and relationships, unfaithful husbands and unthinkable decisions, and the fabulous, frustrating life of forever being part of a trio. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateFeb 4, 2020
    ISBN9780062944252
    Author

    Liane Moriarty

    Liane Moriarty is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies, The Husband's Secret, and What Alice Forgot, as well as The Hypnotist's Love Story, Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, and the Nicola Berry series for children. Liane lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children. www.lianemoriarty.com.au

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    • 4/5
      This is Liane Moriarty's first book - a story about 34-year-old female triplets. It's an enjoyable, pleasant read - as in all of her books, I really liked the realistic dialogue.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Although this doesn't seem to be one of Moriarty's more well-known novels (her first, I believe), I chose to listen to it on audio as it was freely available on my Hoopla app and I had enjoyed reading her Big Little Lies a few months ago. Though I didn't find this one quite as enjoyable as the latter, she seems to follow a similar writing style -- sort of chick lit, sort of quirky, sort of dramatic in its own way. This one starts out with three sisters -- triplets -- celebrating their 34th birthday in a restaurant. The drama is introduced quickly, as one sister stabs another (pregnant) sister in the stomach with a fork. The reader initially sees this from an outsider's point of view, and then the novel jumps back in time, telling the story which leads up to this rather dramatic scene. This seems to be Moriarty's trademark writing style.I had mixed feelings about this one. It was entertaining enough and there were some laugh-out-loud moments. The sisters seem to have a love/hate relationship with one another, and the story moves along with a lot of ups and downs. I'm not sure that any of the sisters were particularly likeable, although that sometimes makes for interesting dynamics in a story. I did enjoy this novel for the most part, although I found the ending a little too quick & tidy. It does appear that Liane Moriarty has refined her style a bit since this initial novel, and I do plan to pursue her other novels that I've not yet read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I haven't read all of Liane Moriarty books but so far this one is my favorite.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      It's a year in the life of three sisters, triplets, who live in Australia. Lots of swearing and low morals. Yet it was good. I liked the sisters and their experiences and feelings were believable.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      It is actually a 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.
      I have some mixed feelings about this book, on one side, it gripped me from the start, and I liked reading it. I had difficulties putting it down, which is the good part. However, upon finishing it, I was left with a bittersweet after taste. This book made me nervous, and left me unsatisfied.
      The writing style at the beginning is a bit confusing, but once you get used to it, it becomes enjoyable. It is the story of three twins, and the narrative perspective keeps changing between the three, which gives you insights on each sister. Plus interspersed in the book there are some anecdotes about the triplet narrated by random people that are cute.
      There are many references to their time growing up, I found these parts to be somewhat a bit too heavy, I skip read through some of their juvenile stories, or the stories about the grandma. When a topic is not much about the main plot it bores me quickly, there were a tiny bit too many in the book I think, some not that relevant.
      However, what made me nervous was the ending; the review is going to get a bit spoilery from now on, even if I am not giving away facts, in fact, I am not even giving you names. So if you have not read the book yet and don’t want any anticipation, I suggest you STOP HERE. If you have read the book, I would like to know if it was just me, or if you had the same impression…
      Sister 1: She has a perfect life from the start, she keeps it throughout the book, with some minor, minor, minor, did I mention minor?, hiccups. She even gets annoyed at the suffering of sister 3, she irritated me a bit. She is a know-it-all … I didn’t find her very sympathetic; she could have been more understanding and less judging. However, she’s not all bad… but I would never ever want her as a sister! (Especially to be compared to, I sympathized with sister3 and adored sister2)
      Sister 2: She is the adorable kind, with her head in the clouds, always good. A bit distracted, but who cares? She had a rough past, but her path in the book is upwards until she reaches the hilltop and gets her well-deserved happy ending.
      Sister 3: She is so abused by the author I was appalled. It is one blow after the other, a relentless succession of sad happenings, and each one worst and more painful than the previous. In a couple of points I was crying for her, like really sobbing! The scene in the park was heartbreaking, I was glad nobody was around to witness me cry that hard over a book. After all this suffering she doesn’t get any real retribution, you just get a faraway flicker of hope, a wink of the eye and that’s it. It was infuriating, after all that suffering both her sisters get/keep the wonderful life, and she, well she doesn’t. I didn’t want to imagine what her happy ending could become... I wanted to read it! As I said in the beginning, this lack of retribution left me nervous, and unsatisfied!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I've enjoyed several of Liane Moriarty's novels and was pleased to read Three Wishes. It was interesting to learn this was her debut novel and was reissued in 2014. It held my interest throughout because the characters seemed real and the lively story was interesting. There were three protagonists, 33-year-old triplets, who were dealing with life's issues.Even though there were some heavy subjects happening at times, Ms. Moriarty used her incredible sense of humor to keep things on the lighter side. By heavy, I mean infidelity, miscarriage, domestic abuse, infertility, and divorce. The triplets' individual personalities were portrayed in such a defining way as each triplet's story was told from a different viewpoint. Other characters played major roles and contributed to the triplet's strong bond with each other and their families.

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    • 5/5
      I love her books and have another one in my hands right this minute! She is just plain fun to read---clever and consistently so. Also, she was a former copywriter and I think it shows up in her writing---I always appreciate finding no mistakes in a book!!!!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Couldn’t get past the 3rd chapter, not sure if it’s the narrator’s voice or the choppy, multiple characters. Had high expectations due to author
    • 3/5
      Somehow engaging but anticlimactic and the only likable character is Gemma.
    • 4/5
      The book was very entertaining and funny. Quick paced. Never drags.
    • 4/5
      Review coming. Like this author for a quick read that is funny and has meaning. Not disappointed.
    • 5/5
      It kept my attention. Glad i did an audiobook. I think an actual book would have been easier to put down.
    • 4/5
      The part I thought was most interesting about this novel was the way each sister tried to define herself in tension with her identity as a triplet and how eventually they each had to figure out who they were independent of that identity. There's stuff about marriage and children and intimacy and having three different main characters means those themes get looked at from a wide variety of viewpoints.
    • 3/5
      Not liane Moriarty's best book. Not bad either though.
      Very monotone narrator. Wouldn't listen to another book done by her.
    • 4/5
      Again, I first read this book when it came out but didn't realize it until 2/3 of the way through. I don't mind reading it again as Liane Moriarty is a good writer. This book made me laugh, made me care for the characters and made me almost cry at a couple points. There are a few times I was slightly confused with flashbacks but it was minor. This is a great summer read that is well worth your time. I don't mind that I read it again and I know you will enjoy it too. Plus I love reading books about other countries.
    • 2/5
      This was a reading group book. Although I did get to the end so it's not terrible, this kind of book is so NOT my interest that I was just glad to get there. I found the characters hard to distinguish and generally didn't care much when I could. I know lots of people love this kind of novel which is fine by me but don't ask me to read it.
    • 4/5
      Thoroughly entertaining. The story opens with drama: 3 sisters (triplets) are out to dinner celebrating their collective birthday when an incident occurs. We aren't entirely sure who does what to whom, but we are given several different eye-witness accounts and the big reveal happens near the end, though it could go a couple different ways. What we get instead is the backstory of 33 years of the triplets' lives and how that has formed their personalities and their current status. Cat, Lyn, and Gemma were the product of a fling between their late-teens parents and needless to say, the marriage didn't last beyond the girls' 6th birthday. Their mother, Maxine is very type-A and has made a career off parenting triplets with a book and lecture circuit. Their father, Frank has always been a good-time guy who had the luxury of being the fun parent and cheerleader for the triplets' endeavors. At this 33rd birthday, they are at a crossroads. Cat's marriage is in shambles, Gemma continues to be a hippy-dippy drifter, and Lyn is a stressed-out over-achieving working (step)mother who has begun having panic attacks. How they get through these bumps with the support of each other, their parents, and their darling Nana is all part of the fun. Whether it is the Australian setting and vernacular (and in this audio book, the accents!) that elevates this above run-of-the-mill chick lit, or just that it is quite well-written without pat, predictable characterization or plot lines, it's a good read. A clever construct throughout is incorporating eye-witness accounts and memories of the girls throughout their lives -- clearly triplethood is memorable and has caused them to grow up (still at 33!) more publicly than others.
    • 4/5
      Yes it was a bit long and drawn out at times. But life is that way also. Believable? Not all of it - although I do not have a sister to compare the relationship. It was a nice, not too deep kind of read. Apparently, just what I was needing right now.
    • 3/5
      2.5 stars. Anti-climactic and not as humorous as I had hoped for.
    • 4/5
      Nice story. Deft, funny, poignant. Just rewrite the fat-phobic part.
    • 5/5
      I loved every part of this book!

      It was a tad bit hard to follow the character changes in the beginning with it being an audiobook.
    • 5/5
      I laughed! I cried! I’m off to find another book by the same author!
    • 3/5
      It was a good story it just didn’t go deep enough for me or leave me with a everlasting feeling of anything.
    • 3/5
      I love Liane Moriarty's books. They are like tlistening to a friend's story. They usually start at one place and end at another. This one did the same, but it wasn't one of my favorites. A little too predictable. The one good thing, it got me out of my reading slump. An easy beach read. Very easy to pick up and put down.
    • 3/5
      Story put together well, author does a great job getting the story told interestingly.
      However the story itself how some things played out were frustrating. How did Lynn show zero remorse or regret how she was Michael’s mistress (broke up his marriage, she even says she stole Genevieves husband) after seeing the misery Cat went through when that was done to her!???!!
      Incredulous. Lyn and Michael should have definitely wrestled with the reality of their choices watching Cat be crippled. Slightly infuriating.

      And another thing, the whole Angela Charlie thing.
      Charlie’s argument to Gemma that they have nothing to do with Angela and Dan, ridiculous. How do they not?! That’s Charlie’s sister, the mistress with the cheating husband, they both tore Gemma’s sister’s life apart. Betrayal. Disgusting to think that Charlie and Gemma would just be ok without any conflict or confrontation to Angela?!?

      The Kettle girls should have said something to Angela at that Christmas encounter. Someone, Anyone, tell Angela she’s not welcome and to stay away from Dan. Charlie could have also been more supportive and sympathetic to what Cat, Gemma’s triplet was going through at the hands of his despicable sister.

      Since this affair was so central to the story these unrealistic behaviors and reactions put a damper on the novel.

      Aside from those flaws the book was well done.
    • 4/5
      Although they may look alike (two identical, one fraternal), the Kettle triplets have their differences. Entrepreneur Lyn is pragmatic and highly organized; Cat, with her emotional extremes, is a marketing executive; and flighty Gemma loves impermanence; she drifts from one house-sitting job to another and treats relationships the same way. Some are married, some are not, and some are in relationship flux.

      What the thirty-year-old siblings have in common is this: they are a handful. Marriage, infidelity, emotional abuse, divorce and remarriage, children and lack thereof – the Kettle girls and their divorced parents Maxine and Frank wade through all of it, with their trademark over-the-top behavior and a lot of love.

      This is Liane Morarty’s first novel, and she’s already got her trademark writing style down: multiple points of view – including strangers, repeating scenes from more than one triplet’s viewpoint (very effectively), and most importantly, inclusion of one big hook that drives her readers to continue to the end.

      Moriarty’s treatment of the Kettle women as triplets is intriguing; in addition to trading places occasionally and drawing attention from strangers, more than one of the sisters has the odd experience of not knowing whether a remembered event happened to her or to one of the other sisters. The author does this so effectively that the reader has a sense of lines of identity dissolving between the three siblings.

      Other editions of Three Wishes are narrated by Caroline Lee; the Scribd version is read by Heather Wilds. Each sentence is a declarative statement, and emphasis often seems misplaced, but I could move past this by playing the book at 1.2 X speed.
    • 3/5
      I think this book should have actually been titled 'Three Bitches'. Seriously.
    • 3/5
      Not my favorite book, but interesting enough to continue to listen. Not super climactic at all.
    • 4/5
      Great book! Amazing unexpected stories. Only challenge was there were too many characters so hard to keep track at some point
    • 4/5
      The last few chapters have some really funny moments. Enjoyed it.