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    Three Wishes

    Written by Liane Moriarty

    Narrated by Heather Wilds

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    Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Whenever they're together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow. But apart, each is very much her own woman, dealing with her own share of ups and downs.



    Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, juggling the many balls of work, marriage, and motherhood with expert precision, but is she as together as her datebook would have her seem? Cat has just learned a startling secret about her marriage-can she bring another life into her very precarious world? And can free-spirited Gemma, who bolts every time a relationship hits the six-month mark, ever hope to find lasting love?



    In this wise, witty, hilarious new novel, we follow the Kettle sisters through their thirty-third year, as they struggle to survive their divorced parents' dating each other, their technologically savvy grandmother, a cheating husband, champagne hangovers, and the fabulous, frustrating life of forever being part of a threesome.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateAug 18, 2014
    ISBN9781494573997
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    Three Wishes
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    Liane Moriarty

    Liane Moriarty is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies, The Husband's Secret, and What Alice Forgot, as well as The Hypnotist's Love Story, Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, and the Nicola Berry series for children. Liane lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children. www.lianemoriarty.com.au

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    • 5/5
      loved everything about this book. it was a great story
    • 4/5
      Enjoyed the book. I love how Liane Moriarty’s books are all so enjoyable and very different.
    • 4/5
      Loved the story, 5 stars. Narrator's voice reminded me of those robotic animations, which was distracting sometimes, so docked a star for that.
    • 4/5
      interesting story, her other books are better, but this one did bring up some good points to ponder
    • 5/5
      A very good book a little slow getting started but then it just picked up the pace and was great!!
    • 4/5
      Fun and entertaining and light. If you are looking for a deep edge of your seat thriller this isn't it.
    • 5/5
      Love this author. love this book. hated that Scribd books cut off the chapters early...
    • 3/5
      THREE WISHES by Liane Moriarty, a humorous chick-lit starring Sydney triplets, Cat, Gemma, and Lyn Kettle –full of dysfunction, wit, family drama, dating and marriage issues, with emotions all over the board, from cheating, hangovers, and secrets.

      The book begins at the 34th birthday party dinner, and a review of the triplet’s crazy roller coaster ride of their life. We meet sarcastic marketing executive Cat and her husband Dan’s affair, a miscarriage and a drinking problem. Next, Gemma- a bit of an airhead, house sitter, and a commitment phobic and her new budding relationship with Charlie. Lastly, Lyn, (the most stable of the bunch) wife and mother, a sticker for time management, and a successful entrepreneur; however experiences panic attacks. Their parents (total dysfunction) have been off and on and now divorced, yet sleeping together.

      I have read many of Moriarty’s books and the other are deeper in content, whereas Three Wishes was funny and witty at times; however, after it moved along, it became quite annoying. Assuming since this is a reprint, (first published 2003) of her debut novel, she has most definitely refined her writing since her earlier book.

      If you want some laughs for a day, would recommend; however, would recommend Moriarty’s more recent books, if you want more of a story to dig into to with substance. Definitely not my favorite of her books; however, I listened to the audiobook and the narrator, Heather Wilds offered a nice accent for the drama filled lives.
    • 4/5
      This is Liane Moriarty's first book - a story about 34-year-old female triplets. It's an enjoyable, pleasant read - as in all of her books, I really liked the realistic dialogue.
    • 5/5
      I really like Liane Moriarty's writing style. Her characters get into crazy situations and one cannot help but laugh at their antics. In this story, a set of triplets with very different personalities meet to celebrate their birthday - complete with three separate birthday cakes. After they make their wishes something goes wrong with the celebration and they end up in a huge fight. The recounting of their lives, leading up to and after that fateful birthday, are told from the eyes of strangers who witnessed the sisters at varying points in their lives. Fun, quick, light reading.
    • 5/5
      I love her books and have another one in my hands right this minute! She is just plain fun to read---clever and consistently so. Also, she was a former copywriter and I think it shows up in her writing---I always appreciate finding no mistakes in a book!!!!
    • 5/5
      I continually love Liane Moriarty because of her plot twist and turns. Three sisters, triplets, two identical, one fraternal and a lifetime of the difference!
    • 4/5
      Three Wishes is a well written and highly emotional book about the lives of triplet sisters Gemma, Lyn and Cat. While I can't dispute that the book probably deserves a higher mark, I have to settle for 3 1/2 stars as the family drama was very difficult to get through. Feel free to call it personal preference, since that's exactly what it is. I don't regret reading it, although I do wish I had waited until I'd been craving an angst-filled family drama.The author has incredible talent and writes extremely realistic family dynamics that yank the feelings right out of you. That's not a bad thing unless the reader spends too much time in the trenches of marital shouting matches (yes, these fights literally scream off the page), or heartbreaking losses of mothers, and my least favorite, betrayed wives of cheating husbands. If you can get through that, there is the uplifting side of courageous women; sisters who fight like tigers, but stick together no matter what. I loved this example, which happened immediately after a particularly vicious argument between these same girls: “Could I trouble you for a lift?”Lyn rolled her eyes. “Of course.”It was always like that. They never said sorry. They just threw down their still-loaded weapons, ready for next time.So, it wasn't all bad. Scenes like this restored my faith in this crazy family and even made me laugh out loud a time or two. It just seemed to take a lot of heartache for these girls to find their place in the world. Then again, life does get ugly at times. Finally recommendation: Well worth the time to read.
    • 4/5
      Gemma, Cat, and Lyn are triplets. In the opening pages they are celebrating their birthdays at a posh Sydney restaurant and we see the meal unfold through the eyes of other patrons. Gemma is a wild spirit, the dreamy, untethered sister. Cat is the strong, brash one. Lyn is the organized, uptight one. The three are so close, yet so wildly different. The trio makes up a pretty exclusive club, yet they don’t tell each other some of the biggest secrets in their lives. Starting with the opening scene, there are short chapters sprinkled in from the random points of view of people whose paths crossed with the girls in some fleeting way. It was an interesting chance to see them from the point of view of an outsider. The style reminded me a bit of the way Moriarty used the police interviews to break up the story in Big Little Lies (though I think the technique worked better in that novel). One of the things I love about Moriarty's books is the way she portrays women. They are complicated. They can be jealous, selfless, kind, furious, and more without being labels a "good" or "bad" character. In other words, they are like real women. Her men tend to be a little more one-dimensional, either they are bad guys or they are long-suffering supportive husbands. That's not always true, but it seems like more often than not they fall into one group or the other. The women though don't have nearly the same defined motivations and I love that. Each of the sisters comes across as flawed and vulnerable in different ways. BOTTOM LINE: I love Moriarty's books. This is my least favorite so far though and I would recommend picking it up after you've already read The Husband's Secret and Big Little Lies.
    • 3/5
      I am about half-way through Three Wishes. I loved Big Little Lies, and enjoyed The Husband's Secret - now, if I can just get through this book. So far, I haven't found the point. I usually enjoy family interactions, but I must say, this book jumps around and I'm having trouble figuring out what's going on. I'll give it to the end probably, but keep waiting to find out what it's about. I do hope it HAS an end and doesn't just stop.

      UPDATE: I just finished Three Wishes - and for me, it got somewhat better, but I never got into the triplet's lives - I never really cared about any of them - and, as I feared, it just sort of ended. Of course, when a book is about relationships and little more (for me anyway), it can do nothing else but end. I usually love books that look deeply into relationships between sisters, friends, mother/daughters, husbands/wives, but this one, sorrowfully didn't do it for me. I certainly was interested enough to complete the book, but I missed feeling a part of it and actually enjoying the process of learning to get to know the characters.

    • 4/5
      It is actually a 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.
      I have some mixed feelings about this book, on one side, it gripped me from the start, and I liked reading it. I had difficulties putting it down, which is the good part. However, upon finishing it, I was left with a bittersweet after taste. This book made me nervous, and left me unsatisfied.
      The writing style at the beginning is a bit confusing, but once you get used to it, it becomes enjoyable. It is the story of three twins, and the narrative perspective keeps changing between the three, which gives you insights on each sister. Plus interspersed in the book there are some anecdotes about the triplet narrated by random people that are cute.
      There are many references to their time growing up, I found these parts to be somewhat a bit too heavy, I skip read through some of their juvenile stories, or the stories about the grandma. When a topic is not much about the main plot it bores me quickly, there were a tiny bit too many in the book I think, some not that relevant.
      However, what made me nervous was the ending; the review is going to get a bit spoilery from now on, even if I am not giving away facts, in fact, I am not even giving you names. So if you have not read the book yet and don’t want any anticipation, I suggest you STOP HERE. If you have read the book, I would like to know if it was just me, or if you had the same impression…
      Sister 1: She has a perfect life from the start, she keeps it throughout the book, with some minor, minor, minor, did I mention minor?, hiccups. She even gets annoyed at the suffering of sister 3, she irritated me a bit. She is a know-it-all … I didn’t find her very sympathetic; she could have been more understanding and less judging. However, she’s not all bad… but I would never ever want her as a sister! (Especially to be compared to, I sympathized with sister3 and adored sister2)
      Sister 2: She is the adorable kind, with her head in the clouds, always good. A bit distracted, but who cares? She had a rough past, but her path in the book is upwards until she reaches the hilltop and gets her well-deserved happy ending.
      Sister 3: She is so abused by the author I was appalled. It is one blow after the other, a relentless succession of sad happenings, and each one worst and more painful than the previous. In a couple of points I was crying for her, like really sobbing! The scene in the park was heartbreaking, I was glad nobody was around to witness me cry that hard over a book. After all this suffering she doesn’t get any real retribution, you just get a faraway flicker of hope, a wink of the eye and that’s it. It was infuriating, after all that suffering both her sisters get/keep the wonderful life, and she, well she doesn’t. I didn’t want to imagine what her happy ending could become... I wanted to read it! As I said in the beginning, this lack of retribution left me nervous, and unsatisfied!
    • 4/5
      Triplets face their own issues in their 30's. Funny, good characters.
    • 4/5
      Although this doesn't seem to be one of Moriarty's more well-known novels (her first, I believe), I chose to listen to it on audio as it was freely available on my Hoopla app and I had enjoyed reading her Big Little Lies a few months ago. Though I didn't find this one quite as enjoyable as the latter, she seems to follow a similar writing style -- sort of chick lit, sort of quirky, sort of dramatic in its own way. This one starts out with three sisters -- triplets -- celebrating their 34th birthday in a restaurant. The drama is introduced quickly, as one sister stabs another (pregnant) sister in the stomach with a fork. The reader initially sees this from an outsider's point of view, and then the novel jumps back in time, telling the story which leads up to this rather dramatic scene. This seems to be Moriarty's trademark writing style.I had mixed feelings about this one. It was entertaining enough and there were some laugh-out-loud moments. The sisters seem to have a love/hate relationship with one another, and the story moves along with a lot of ups and downs. I'm not sure that any of the sisters were particularly likeable, although that sometimes makes for interesting dynamics in a story. I did enjoy this novel for the most part, although I found the ending a little too quick & tidy. It does appear that Liane Moriarty has refined her style a bit since this initial novel, and I do plan to pursue her other novels that I've not yet read.
    • 5/5
      Three Wishes is the first novel by Australian writer, Liane Moriarty. It is the story of the Kettle sisters: triplets Catriona and Lynette (identical) and Gemma (non-identical). The scene opens at their 34th birthday party at a busy Sydney seafood restaurant. The celebration is a champagne-fuelled noisy, happy one until suddenly one of the sisters stands up, shouts “You have both fucking ruined my life!”, the fondue fork she has been wielding lands in her sister’s very pregnant belly, and she then faints from the shock of what she has done, breaking her jaw on the table on her way down. Enough of a scene to entice any reader to read on! As we learn what led to this moment, and what came after it, we share the Kettle family’s ups and downs. Moriarty gives us an original plot, interesting characters and credible dialogue, as well as humour and heartache. She touches on sibling relationships, especially those between triplets, mental cruelty, young parenthood, adultery, surrogacy, dreams and goals in life. A very enjoyable, heart-warming novel.
    • 3/5
      Australian triplets live, love, laugh and cry their way through marriages, divorces, children and jobs. Interspersed with brief commentary from perfect strangers whose lives they've impacted. I picked this up thinking it was something else entirely. Not my cup of tea, but readable enough.
    • 5/5
      A year in the life of thirty-ish triples. The usual problems, but handled here with both sympathy and fun. Very likeable characters.
    • 4/5
      It's a year in the life of three sisters, triplets, who live in Australia. Lots of swearing and low morals. Yet it was good. I liked the sisters and their experiences and feelings were believable.
    • 5/5
      I adore this book. It is a cleverly written novel about triplets, and about how different you can be even when you're sisters. The story starts with a row the sisters have, one of them throws a fork at the other, and it is very dramatic. The the story switches back to a year before, and the reader learns how the fight could happen. Very credible, humorous and emotional story.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. It wasn't as light hearted as other chick lit books I've read, but it had its hilarious moments. It also showed that life does go on.