If you read this book, you have to be willing to suspend belief a little bit, especially towards the last 1/4 of the book. However, with that being said, I really really liked this book. The reason for only 4 stars is because it took me quite a few chapters to really get invested in the story, to...
what a book. The characters are so well written and complex that you tend to forget that their fictional, and what a plot! Diane Chamberlain knows how to tug on your emotions and make you think about the issue at hand, her writing of this novel is very reminiscent of a Jodi Piccoult novel. Both ...
I feel I'm a bit generous to give this book 4 stars, probably 3 1/2 would be more accurate, but it was very readable and enjoyable, and I wanted to turn each page to see what would happen. The plot was good and full of twists and turns. Unfortunately I found the characters shallow which let the...
Diane Chamberlain is one of my favorite authors. Having said that, the Before the Storm books are not my favorite books. I waited a while to read the second book. I'm not sure why I find these characters so unlikeable. Maybe their justification of their bad acts is far too human or the mere ...
A quick glance through the various reviews of this book would probably have made me think twice about bothering to read it, so I'm glad I didn't look it up before I downloaded it- I had read (and re-read) one of Chamberlain's other books, The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes, saw her name and bought ...
What makes a mother? Genes? Childbirth? Love? And once a mother bonds with her child, is there anything that can break that bond? Diane Chamberlain’s novel “The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes” gives us the story of a teenage mother and her child. But there’s a lot more to it than just that an...
I do like Diane Chamberlain. I know that every time I open one of her books I am going to get a page turner with characters whose lives I can get really involved in, and this is no exception.In 1967 at a commune on Big Sur, a visiting doctor, Carlynn Shire, saved the life of a new born baby girl....
The First Lie is a short story by the American author Diane Chamberlain, written as a prequel to her novel "Necessary Lies", although the author states that they may be read independently. Both works were published in 2013.This short story is set in 1958, two years before the novel. The reader fo...