Sisters Hardcover – September 5, 2017

I read a rave review about this novel in a women's/fashion magazine and ordered without reading the reviews. Once it arrived, I realized this would be a very quick read; super small book and written in short paragraph format (forgive my ignorance in not knowing what format.... there are literally 1-3 paragraphs on each page). I read it in less than an hour, perhaps it was written in the same amount of time and I was not left wanting moreThe author provided a good platform by which to understand the dynamics of the characters and then utterly dropped the ball with an ending seeming like she was bored and had to meet a deadline.

I loved the ease with which the narrator paints the ex wife, the step children and the husband, thus painting her own self. I look forward to reading more of Lily Tuck’s work.

This was an extremely quick read (~1 hour). The novel is a very interesting writing style, and overall I enjoyed it.

Unless you’re looking to kill 20 minutes, don’t waste your time. I wanted a beach read and I barely had time to arrange my towel before I was done. I like Lily Tuck’s writing, but seriously?? This wasn’t worth the download time.

The story is weird. The timeline keeps jumping around and it’s just really hard to follow.

Not up to her best effort but well written. This is the third book I have read by Ms. Tuck, "The Door" being the best. She creates characters that are believable, dialogue that feels real but the sum of the total is just a little off. I would recommend this book despite giving it only three stars.

Ever wonder what a second wife thinks of the first wife? They are not sisters, nor do they know each other. They know of each other. Wife number two is married to wife number one's ex-husband. Their names are not revealed to the reader. The narrator, wife number two, simply refers to wife number one, as ‘she’. It’s twisted, clever, and there seems to be a double entendre for everything. But that is thanks to wife number two. She is looking for something behind everything that wife number one is, that she isn’t. Got it? No, but you will.Short, not so sweet. But not meant to be. SISTERS is poetic in its brief nature, much comes across in such little space. Wife number two is obsessed. Will wife number one always cast a shadow over wife number two’s marriage? Read on as our deft stalker, oops, I mean wife number two, shares more.

In this short novel, Tuck describes the thoughts of a second wife. This woman had met her husband while he was still married and started an affair with him. It led to divorce and her marriage to that man. He had two teenage children. The second wife spends a lot of time thinking about the first wife, what her life is now and who is better off.At first the second wife feels that she is the winner, that she has taken what the other woman cherished. But as her sense of victory diminishes and her desire for her husband wanes, she begins to fantasize that the other woman has been the ultimate victor and that she has won freedom to live her life as she wants with no one to interfere.Lily Tuck was born in Paris and writes novels that delve into the psychological makeup of her subjects. One of her novels was a National Book Award winner. In this study, the second wife goes from feeling like a victor to a loser and her marriage which seemed like a glittering prize now is tarnished and worth little. The genesis of the book was the former common practice of a man whose wife died marrying her sister and how that plays out in our modern life where divorce is common and women must form some type of relationship with their predecessor, especially if children are involved. This book is recommended for literary fiction readers.