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The Year That Everything Changed (2000)

by Georgia Bockoven(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

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review 1: I've read so many of these books where sisters bond after a parent's death that perhaps I've grown a little jaded. In this case, the four sisters only learned each other existed shortly before their millionaire father, Jesse. dies. Most of them felt abandoned by their father and have hostile mindsets towards both him and their new half-sisters. Lucy, Jesse's lawyer, has always felt an unrequited love for the man. And so she makes a deal with him to record the story of his life to share with his daughters right before he dies of cancer. Then Lucy manipulates the will to require the sisters to listen to the recordings together in a group for six months before inheriting ten million dollars each. Readers get good coverage of all the sister's domestic and work lives, and as to... more be expected in this somewhat paint-by-numbers novel, the sisters eventually bond. No surprises here, just a few crises and the inevitable all-is-well resolution. Yet who am I to complain? This was entertaining fare and I read (just about) every word.
review 2: It was okay. A little predictable toward the end. I enjoyed getting to know the four sisters and hearing the story. I couldn't put the book down for the first half but after the one of the sister's "plot/story lines" I almost wanted to just put it down and guess what happened. Christina's story felt a little fake and Rachel and Elizabeth's was incredibly predictable ( almost). Overall an enjoyable read. less

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