Our House by Louise Candlish

When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she's sure there's been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern coparenting arrangement: bird's nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. But the system built to protect their family ends up putting them in terrible jeopardy. In a domino effect of crimes and misdemeanors, the nest comes tumbling down.

Now Bram has disappeared and so have Fiona's children. As events spiral well beyond her control, Fiona will discover just how many lies her husband was weaving and how little they truly knew each other. But Bram's not the only one with things to hide, and some secrets are best kept to oneself, safe as houses.






Our House by Louise Candlish
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book started with so much promise -it was a new type of criminal activity for me!

However, it started dragging about a third of the way in.

How perfect can our main character/female Fiona/Fi be before she becomes a caricature? How stupid can our male main character Bram get before you just want him dead? And he is VERY stupid IMO!

I admit there was a clever twist, actually several, at the end (which felt like it took forever for me to get there BTW!) but the book does end on a very sour and abrupt note leaving the reader with many questions unanswered.

ARC provided by publisher.


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The Story of Arthur Truluv

The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A very short and sometimes overly sentimental book. I liked it and it did make me cry even though the outcome was inevitable and the author made it very clear about it while you were reading -but still.

I actually thought I had more pages to go when the book ended and was very disappointed to find I didn't. I do like the fact that there is a sequel.

I know that this is being compared to A Man Called Ove but I prefer to think of it as more of a combination of Fannie Flagg (I adore her writing) and Billie Letts.

The sequel is quite expensive (12.99 for Kindle) for the few pages that it is (266) Night of Miracles. I so want to know what's up with Maddy and Lucille.


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