This is the story of the Kettle sisters, Gemma, Lyn and Cat, 33-years old triplets (two are identical twins) and a look at their lives at a pivotal moment in time. It's told in each of their voices, transitioning from past to present as they each face a critical issue. The dynamics of how they interact with each other is also an important aspect of their story. I very much enjoyed this story as the character development was outstanding. I felt I truly knew each sister and how they would behave a...

Three Wishes is a family drama novel written by Liane Moriarty nearly two decades ago. I've been reading all her backlog books this year, hoping to get fully caught up by the spring. I'm well on my way with this one, now having finished everything except her short stories and very early series. I'll probably stop here temporarily for two reasons. One, the rest all have less than a few hundred reviews, which tell me they aren't anything big to worry about... but I also need a break from family dr...

Three reasons to read Three Wishes:1. You’re a completest, like me. Having read all of Liane Moriarty’s other novels, it always bothered me that I wouldn’t honestly be able to rave, “I’ve read all your books!” if I ever ran into her at an airport or something. After reading this one - her first, originally published in 2004 - crisis averted!2. You seek out Christmas books that aren’t overtly Christmasy. Much of the plot here takes place over the holidays, so the seasonal reader in me wished I ha...

I really like Liane Moriarty. The ex-advertising copywriter delivers Sydney based tales featuring gritty women who have loud, forthright conversations and live complex, secret ridden lives. I’ve heard her output described as chic lit, but but this feels like a diminishment of what are uniformly snappy, funny and often hard hitting stories. My advice is grab one and judge for yourselves – if you’re not already a convert, that is.In this book – her first – we are introduced to triplets, the Kettle...

This is a really enjoyable and totally engaging book written in the author's customary style. Chapters are preceded by little anecdotes from strangers who view the main characters antics as outsiders. And then we get to meet all those lovely characters and, whether we love them or dislike them, discovering what happens to them becomes compulsive reading. If you enjoyed Big Little Lies then you will enjoy this too. I guess it does fall into the genre of Chick Lit but it is very good quality Chick...

I want to be a Kettle sister. Ha! But I’d do anything for some extra excitement. Nuff said. This is the author's debut. I don’t see that she has anything to improve on if I was to be honest! I just love her original stories, she's got a flair for it.This one in particular shows me we are of the same era. I love when the books I read contain little tid bits of pop culture references that I can relate to and really bond with. Teletubies and Bananarama’s song ‘Venus’ being a couple of them. The Ket...

2.5 starsMy least favorite of the authors books. Three 33 year old twin sisters and their dramas with husbands, boyfriends, children, parents, and each other. It was like reading a three ring circus. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it in my own thirties when I was still drinking cosmopolitans. Perhaps a warning on the cover: Not for mature audiences; reader discretion is advised.

4★“Cat felt that sense of pleasure and pride 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?’”I reckon that’s just how siblings think about each other – alternating rapidly between loyalty and rivalry. In this case, Moriarty gives us triplets, which includes a pair of blonde identical twins, and an outlier, redheaded Gemma. They are the result of an impulsive, lusty coupling in the backseat of

Definitely not my favorite Liane Moriarty.This book follows a similar format as her other books with the book opening with a dramatic and very public argument in a restaurant as they celebrate their 33rd birthday together. The book then goes back to the events leading up to the big blowout to provide some context.Having read quite a few Liane Moriarty the twists and turns in this book were predictable, and I felt like this is one of my least favorite of her books due to the ending. Moriarty is u...

How have I only just properly discovered Aussie author Liane Moriarty? I loved this book, and can't believe it's her first novel (she now has many more under her belt) - it's so richly written. I kept seeing Liane's name about the place, then was drawn to reading her debut tome as it's about triplet sisters and I'm preggers with twins. Well, I will definitely be searching out more of her titles.The Kettle sisters depicted and their various partners, exes and rellies all seem so real and will 'li...

I normally love books by Liane Moriarty, and while Three Wishes was a fun and interesting book, it doesn't exactly hold up to the expectations I have for this author. I suppose I can forgive her since this was her debut novel. I really liked the pace of this book. Stories that drag tend to bore me, as I'm sure they do most people. There was always something happening or some type of drama needing to be resolved in this story. I really particularly love how, at least in all of the stories I have

3.5 StarsTriplet sisters living in Australia and trying to figure out their lives. The book opens with a crazy dinner sequence where the sisters are together for their birthday, one is pregnant and one stabs the pregnant one in the belly with a fork!... Let the hi jinks commence! This book was crazy and fun. The three sisters are each unique with their own set of quirks. As the book progresses, the story continues to twist and twist. I literally kept gasping and the story change again. What a f

This is only my second Liane Moriarty novel. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as her more popular Big Little Lies, but I did.It may not be literary fiction, but Moriarty can write characters incredibly well. Most importantly, their stories are so relatable, so real. It goes without saying that being about triplet sisters made things even more interesting as most of us are intrigued by twins, triplets and so on. Moriarty masterfully interspersed bystanders' povs with the sisters'. It works rea...

This wasn’t my favorite Liane Moriarty book, but I enjoyed it a lot. A story about triplets—two identical, one fraternal—it’s about the friendship and angry spats that come from having a family. Nobody can piss you off in an instant quite like a family member because it’s never just about the one thing you’re upset about, it’s an accumulation of your shared history. Which is the exact same reason no one will understand you in quite the same way your sisters will—they had the same parents and thu...