Publisher: William
Morrow
Published: September
4, 2018
ISBN: 978-0062642455
Genre: Contemporary,
Historical, Mystery
Format: Print
from Library
Reviewed by
name and email address: Gina myreviewbooks@aol.com
FOUR HEARTS
Three women have their lives intersect over a mysterious parcel
salvaged from the Lusitania. In 1915
Caroline Hochstetter is desperately in love with her husband, but he continuously
ignore her for business matters. Even on
the night before they sail on the famed ship—the unsinkable and called fastest
ship in the Cunard fleet, he tends to business rather than his wife.
Forger Tessa Fairweather is determined that the “job” her sister
Ginny is determined she complete will be the last one. Every painting Tessa, aka Tess, has forged to
date has been, to her mind innocent.
This one, however, could dramatically change the course of the war. But as she boards the Lusitania Tess doesn’t
know this.
In 2013 Sarah Blake has had a spectacular success with her first
book, Small Potatoes. But that was
several years ago. But that was before
her mother needed to be placed in a care facility and Sarah’s advance and royalty
ran out. Now she is trying to regain her
muse. In an act of desperation she opens
a box her mother told to never ever open.
The box, which holds a link to her family’s past, may well hold the key
to Sarah’s future. In the box is an
intriguing document, one that leads her across the ocean. What she finds there is more than her
muse.
Three women, one ship, a family history entwining the past and
the present. story, some history, great
characters and several stories wonderfully woven into one. With each new character that came along a new
story began to unfold, each more compelling than the one before. Andrews ties them altogether in fabulous
style and storytelling.
I’ve read co-authored books before. Some of them you can tell right off where one
author stopped writing and the next stepped in.
I’ve read others that are seamless and you have no idea there was more
than one pen telling the tale. Lauren
Willig, Karen White and Beatriz Williams in THE GLASS OCEAN go one step further
than any multi-author book I’ve read not only that their voices blend in a
smooth and compelling tale, but they link the three main characters as well as
events in the past and present into an enthralling story. Normally when a book alternates between the
past and the present I read all of the chapters that take place in the past
first and then go back and read those in the present. With THE GLASS OCEAN I was so drawn to each
story I read straight through.
Each woman has a romance – an unforgettable romance. There is a mystery. There is suspense. There is hope for a ship we now know was
doomed.
I struggled to read the last chapter but it is written in first
person present tense which I find unreadable.
To me it reads like a grammar school student trying to write their first
play or someone who is learning English.
After reading such a great story that flowed from the first paragraph to
have it end with the choppy and jarring first person present tense I was
disappointed. Had it been written in a
readable voice this review would have been a five.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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