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A review by thereadingrunnner
The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wiggs
3.0
I received a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway in exchange for an honest review.
This is a very readable book, but with a lot of things that just weren't very believable or convincing. Heads up on some possible triggers: domestic abuse, drug abuse/overdose and parental death at a young age.
The story begins with Caroline making the cross country trek from New York to her lovely hometown on Washington's Pacific coast... With 2 kids who aren't hers in tow. Most of the story is flashing back to her childhood and her time in New York, with a bit of present day mixed in.
I enjoyed the characters and I think this had the bones to be a great story, but there were so many different things happening and very little of it was convincing. I can't say much else without spoiling things, but I found the "friendship" between Caroline and Angelique to be far from close... Certainly not of the caliber that you would believe a lot of what transpired. The friendship between Caroline and Sierra made no sense, especially given that Sierra had no clue of the feelings Caroline had for Will... You just can't hide these sorts of things. The Oysterville sewing circle group, a domestic abuse support group started up by Caroline, left me wanting more and seemed glossed over whereas I wanted it to moreso be the highlight and meat of the novel... Instead it was more of a girl likes boy, how can girl get said boy especially when boy is your best friends husband sort of book...
I did find the historical aspect of the name of the Oysterville sewing circle interesting and clever. Overall, lots of potential here, but for me it was a flop.
This is a very readable book, but with a lot of things that just weren't very believable or convincing. Heads up on some possible triggers: domestic abuse, drug abuse/overdose and parental death at a young age.
The story begins with Caroline making the cross country trek from New York to her lovely hometown on Washington's Pacific coast... With 2 kids who aren't hers in tow. Most of the story is flashing back to her childhood and her time in New York, with a bit of present day mixed in.
I enjoyed the characters and I think this had the bones to be a great story, but there were so many different things happening and very little of it was convincing. I can't say much else without spoiling things, but I found the "friendship" between Caroline and Angelique to be far from close... Certainly not of the caliber that you would believe a lot of what transpired. The friendship between Caroline and Sierra made no sense, especially given that Sierra had no clue of the feelings Caroline had for Will... You just can't hide these sorts of things. The Oysterville sewing circle group, a domestic abuse support group started up by Caroline, left me wanting more and seemed glossed over whereas I wanted it to moreso be the highlight and meat of the novel... Instead it was more of a girl likes boy, how can girl get said boy especially when boy is your best friends husband sort of book...
I did find the historical aspect of the name of the Oysterville sewing circle interesting and clever. Overall, lots of potential here, but for me it was a flop.