Review: Pieces of a Puzzle - Great Women's Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2013
This is the story of a woman who goes to the kitchen to finish up dinner, leaving her husband in the living room, and when she returns he is gone. This was an immediate hook for me. It sounded interesting, the sudden missing husband. The sections jumped around in time, which at first seemed confusing, but I got used to that and once I remembered the time frames, it was easy to know what was happening in the life of the heroine.And such a sympathetic character she was; a gentle, pragmatic woman, who had never taken chances, always been careful. She goes about her life in a quiet manner. I found all the characters to be well-developed and consistent.The story was told in snippets, woven together in such a way that the reader ends up with the full story. My only wish was that the relationship between Alison and Karen might have been more fully developed. I won't say more, so as not to create spoilers.I liked the details of Alison's life, the little things that made her real to me. Her friendships, her family, the men in her life, of which there were few, were all believable and I especially liked the sisters' story, since they were so different in nature.I would recommend this book. It moves slowly, it's gentle. It's peaceful. I don't know that I can put in into words exactly. I was very easy to read. I was soothed by it.