Review: Good story, but the climax was rushed.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2013
This novel told the story of two friends, Rose and Lillian, and how they both get tied up into a murder. The story starts out with Lillian telling a relative, Catherine, that the truth must come out when the time is right. From there, the story jumps back to the early 1900s to tell the story of Rose and Lillian growing up together. The story ends with Catherine finally finding the truth of the murder.I enjoyed this book. Lillian and Rose were both good characters whose lives I became immersed in. The author did a good job making me care about these characters and provided a lot of good supporting characters. Rose's family members all had very distinctive personalities that I either loved or despised, and Lillian's good friend Anna became a character that I adored. I thought this book had a really good set of characters.The plot moved along at a nice pace, and I was always interested in what was going on in the story. Watching the girls' lives progress as they grow older and begin getting married kept me interested.My one disappointment here is that the climax fell flat for me. There was the huge buildup leading to the murder and who did it and what happened, and it is all revealed in one paragraph. It felt too quick to me to have all of this suspense just ended immediately.That being said, this was a good read and it is something I would definitely recommend.