Three Wishes was cute, if nothing particularly special. Basically a glimpse into some family drama, big and wild at first but everything shakes out fine by the end. Still, it was a fun little read and the characters were overall pretty endearing.
“Cat felt that sense of pleasure and pride that she always felt when she saw her sisters in public. “Look at them!” she wanted to say to people. “My sisters. Aren’t they great? Aren’t they annoying?”
Triplets Cat, Gemma and Lyn turn 34 at the beginning of the novel — a birthday dinner where one woman throws a fork into the belly of her very pregnant sister — then we back up to their thirty third birthday to see how we got to the fork assault. You’ll spend the first 100 pages of the novel trying to remember which triplet is which. Cat has been trying to get pregnant — but then finds out her husband cheated on her with some 20 year old. Gemma can’t stay in a relationship for more than six months, but then you find out why (troubled romantic past, of course). Lyn has a wretched teenage stepdaughter and a baby with her husband, and the successful career/big house/etc.
The sisters (and their divorced parents) fight and squabble and help each other through things. Like another Moriarty book (I can’t remember which one — Cait?), there’s an extraneous grandparent with her own storyline that really could have been cut, but whatever. Like I said, it’s a cute little story that you can read in an evening or two, and be grateful that you don’t have triplets in your family.
Still alice