I swear this author enjoys emotionally torturing her characters and readers. But I enjoyed this one - I was completely invested in certain characters - I just had to know what happened. Ooh, my heart hurt for them. Sure it had it's flaws and the beginning dragged a little - but once it picked up, I could not stop reading - it was a 5 star experience for me.

I was so disappointed. I had saved this book thinking I would have a lovely time reading. I have read a lot of her books, and always enjoyed them. The relationships between the three sisters are interesting, and not real relationships. They are very flat and unnatural. There were instances where the book is so stilted with the development of some characters, I wouldn't want to read further. I got depressed the further I read, and I kept hoping that the story would get better. There are many ends...

One may wonder why a reader would rate a book so low and still read it. I guess I read the book because I decided not to waste my money. (That's best reason I can come up with.) I've never read Kristin Hannah before, so I picked this book up because it was cheap at Costco, and because I decided I needed a bit of light, chick-lit reading as a change of pace. I found myself almost groaning sometimes during the story because the writing was so dull. The author's attempt at character development for...

This author, she just never fails to disappoint. What an unusual heartbreaking and heartwarming story about family living on a legacy farm in a small town. Three sisters, all different in personality. Loss of their mother when they were young and now dealing with an embittered father and a property falling on hard times. Horses play a role in this story and who doesn’t like horses? Such a well rounded story plot! I so enjoyed this read, thus my 5 star rating. Highly recommended.

While I liked some of the drama in the first 1/3 of the book and the resolution in the last 1/3 of the book, I can't help but view this as a horse girl soap opera that got reduced to cheap characterizations with very poor portrayals of sisterhood. I disliked how the sisters were caricatures - one blonde, skinny, and perfect; the other fat, smart, and unpopular. I especially disliked how these differences made the fat sister jealous, vindictive, and passive-aggressive towards the other one, espec...

True Colours by Kristin Hannah is the second book I've read by this author and it's the second time I've spent half the time reading either on the verge of tears, sniffling , crying or getting frustrated (a tip from one reader to another remember the tissues 🤧)This book has everything from forbidden love, teenage love, complicated family relationships, a murder, a wrong conviction and freedom.It's definitely worth reading even if it is heartbreaking at times but the ending makes all the shed tea...

Really, all I have to say about this book is the following:1) My grandma lent it to me. ❤️2) It is 544 pages and I read it in under 24 hours.Those are my main two positive impressions.When I was in middle school, my best friend began working her way through her mom’s women’s fiction collection, which was (like any self-respecting stack of chick lit) dominated by Kristin Hannah. This led to her discovering a book called Firefly Lane, which led to her telling me to read it, which led to my favorit...

I read this book in four days. I couldn't put it down. I just wanted to know what was going to happen. This is when you really know a book is good when it's a page turner. Anyway, this book is about three sisters trying to stay together as a family. The dad is always drinking and basically hating his life after his wife died. The three sisters are trying to make their way in life and get torn apart but certain events that happen along the way. Eventually they reunite but there is tension still b...

This is a hard book to rate for me. On one hand, I thought it was really good. Hannah does a super job of making you feel the emotions the characters are experiencing, at familiarizing you to the settings and the motivations of the story and just simply making you FEEL. Whether it be sadness, anger, love or disgust you get to crawl into some of the characters lives and see the story through their perspective. That part of the book I loved. On the other hand is the mechanics of the story. How she...

A story of sisterhood, loss, and redemption. The three sisters, Winona, Aurora, and Vivi Ann, lost their mom at a young age. They all live in the same town they grew up in. They each have their own struggles and hold some resentments from childhood. The oldest sister, Winona has always been in love with childhood friend Luke, so when he comes back to town only to fall for the free-spirited youngest sister Vivi Ann, it causes jealousy to arise. We are soon introduced to Dallas, who is newly hired...

I listened to this as an unabridged audio book. Kristin Hannah has written some charming historical romances in the past which is why I was tempted to pick this up but I’m really under whelmed with this women’s fiction/chick lit/soap opera venture. Where’s the charm? Never mind that, where’s the love? All I’m reading here is bitterness and jealousy and awkward relationships. It’s making me edgy and impatient. The book is about three sisters whose mom died of cancer when they were very young teen...

Don't bother. I'd have given it one star, but that would have made me feel a bit guilty, because it did hold my attention enough to finish it. I felt like I was reading a Harlequin Romance book, complete with the stereotypical Perfect Sister, the Chubby Smart Sister, the Beautiful Wild Sister and the Indian Who Scares The White People. This is my first Kristin Hannah book, and I've had friends recommend her. Maybe it's a bit like Jodi Piccoult, you either love her or ... you don't. It just felt

I started out really liking this book, and stayed pretty riveted throughout the first half. But after a while, it just started to wear on me.True Colors is the story of 3 sisters in a small town in Washington as they try to keep their family ranch afloat, find love, and live their lives. Ultimately, none of the characters in the book was terribly likable. Two of the sisters in particular both came off incredibly self-absorbed. Their love-hate relationship, particularly as it dragged out for deca...

Get out your tissues, you are going to need them.Wednesday I had a flight to Seattle and back and since it was such a short day I decided I could do without a book and just do work things. Well as often occurs at the airport flights are delayed and other things occur, so I ended up with 5 hours on my hands.The first three hours I did alright but then I was bored out of my mind so I headed to the closest book stand. I browsed for close to half an hour narrowing down my choice to two books. In the...