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Title: Instances of the Number Three
Author: Salley Vickers
Genre: Literary fiction
Thingummies: 3
Synopsis: A widow strikes up a surprising friendship with her husband's mistress and a young man he had befriended.
Thoughts: I liked this book more while reading it than in retrospect.
The language is charming, and I very much enjoyed spending time in the company of the characters. They were interesting people, drawn with great insight. There are flashes of wry humor and a certain warmth throughout.
The ending kind of peters out, though, and the big surprise is something I figured out less than halfway through the book. (Perhaps we were supposed to? The reveal itself is almost anticlimactic.) And there are certain logistics that I'm not sure quite work in retrospect.
Not bad, but not as good as Miss Garnet's Angel.
Author: Salley Vickers
Genre: Literary fiction
Thingummies: 3
Synopsis: A widow strikes up a surprising friendship with her husband's mistress and a young man he had befriended.
Thoughts: I liked this book more while reading it than in retrospect.
The language is charming, and I very much enjoyed spending time in the company of the characters. They were interesting people, drawn with great insight. There are flashes of wry humor and a certain warmth throughout.
The ending kind of peters out, though, and the big surprise is something I figured out less than halfway through the book. (Perhaps we were supposed to? The reveal itself is almost anticlimactic.) And there are certain logistics that I'm not sure quite work in retrospect.
Not bad, but not as good as Miss Garnet's Angel.
