About the Book:
Three grown Southern sisters have ten marriages between them—and more loom on the horizon—when Ginger, the eldest, wonders if she’s the only one who hasn’t inherited what their family calls “the Grandma Gene”: the tendency to like the casualness of courtship better than the intimacy of marriage. Could it be that her two sisters are fated to serially marry, just like their seven-times wed grandmother, Mrs. Lillian Irene Harper Winslow Goldstein Carey James Bobrinski Gordon George? It takes a “girls only” weekend, closing up Grandma’s treasured beach house for the last time, for the sisters to really unpack their family baggage, examine their relationship DNA, and discover the true legacy their much-marrying grandmother left behind . . .
My Comments:
I've read and enjoyed several of Angela Hunt's books in the past so I was pleased to accept a review copy of her latest, The Fine Art of Insincerity. Hunt does a great job of showing how these sisters' childhood affected their adult lives, for good and for bad. I can't say that I particularly liked any of the three, but by the end of the book I was cheering for all of them. Hunt allows them to learn the value of love between sisters and love between spouses.
I guess there is something about a death in the family that draws people together, and yet opens wounds that never heal unless they are exposed.
The Fine Art of Insincerity is not a fluffy feel-good read, but it does have a hopeful ending and I thoroughly enjoyed it. While classified as Christian fiction, it is on the subtle end of the spectrum and unless you hate references to God and faith, the Christian elements shouldn't bother you. I'd say it fits the category of "women's fiction" as well if not better than Christian fiction. Grade: A-
My Comments:
I've read and enjoyed several of Angela Hunt's books in the past so I was pleased to accept a review copy of her latest, The Fine Art of Insincerity. Hunt does a great job of showing how these sisters' childhood affected their adult lives, for good and for bad. I can't say that I particularly liked any of the three, but by the end of the book I was cheering for all of them. Hunt allows them to learn the value of love between sisters and love between spouses.
I guess there is something about a death in the family that draws people together, and yet opens wounds that never heal unless they are exposed.
The Fine Art of Insincerity is not a fluffy feel-good read, but it does have a hopeful ending and I thoroughly enjoyed it. While classified as Christian fiction, it is on the subtle end of the spectrum and unless you hate references to God and faith, the Christian elements shouldn't bother you. I'd say it fits the category of "women's fiction" as well if not better than Christian fiction. Grade: A-
Last year I read 
and as 
. In it Jennifer Graham, whose husband recently divorced her in favor of the young nanny, inherits a funeral home. She plans to sell it, but while visiting it, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is Gerald, her uncle's assistant, she decides to keep it and to study to become a mortician. While this book set the scene for the other two, I found it the weakest of the three, and had it been the first one I read, I'm not sure I would have continued with the series. By the time 
is about Gerald's terminal illness and death. It is also about Jennifer's desire for stability in life, and a realization that change can bring us to a better place. 
I've
on Bookmooch I decided to give it a try. It is a sweet Christian romance novel about a top-notch, efficient but non-emotionally involved oncology nurse and her new boss, Dr. Superwonderful but Touchy-feely too. Jacquelyn has a great life with things going her way. She even has a boyfriend who, though he doesn't put her first in his life, is nice to have when he is there. She is Nurse of the Year at work. Then he shows up. Jonah is gorgeous, and all the patients love him. Instead of efficiently moving them through the process, he talks to them, and gets involved in their lives. They clash. Then she finds that she has breast cancer. Guess who she picks as her doctor? Jonah has some baggage in his past. It is a romance novel, so guess how it ends?