I've enjoyed a few books by Kristin Hannah over the years and had TRUE COLORS waiting in my TBR pile for quite a while so was glad to finally get to it this month with a few buddies in my online book club, The Reading Cove. For the most part I enjoyed it, but it wasn't one of my favorites by KH.
It's the story of the Grey family and opens after a mother has just passed away, leaving her husband and their three young daughters behind. As the story progresses, we get to know two of the sistersWinona and Vivi Annvery well, as most of the tale is told from their POV. But the middle sister, Aurora, comes across as a story convenience and we never get her POV, which ends up feeling like a gaping hole in the narrative by the end.
Beyond that, there was also some very repetitious characterization of Winona as the green-eyed, fat sister and Vivi as the beautiful, envied one. It was overkill, and there was too much tell, not enough show.
But overall, TRUE COLORS was a decent family drama that explored over a decade of emotional family dynamics. So I enjoyed the story despite its flaws. B-
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It's the story of the Grey family and opens after a mother has just passed away, leaving her husband and their three young daughters behind. As the story progresses, we get to know two of the sistersWinona and Vivi Annvery well, as most of the tale is told from their POV. But the middle sister, Aurora, comes across as a story convenience and we never get her POV, which ends up feeling like a gaping hole in the narrative by the end.
Beyond that, there was also some very repetitious characterization of Winona as the green-eyed, fat sister and Vivi as the beautiful, envied one. It was overkill, and there was too much tell, not enough show.
But overall, TRUE COLORS was a decent family drama that explored over a decade of emotional family dynamics. So I enjoyed the story despite its flaws. B-
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