The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish / Coming Unraveled / Return to Summer Island
Debbie Macomber
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The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish / Coming Unraveled / Return to Summer Island
Debbie Macomber
The Twenty-First Wish by Debbie MacomberAnne Marie Roche and her adopted daughter, ten-year-old Ellen, have each written a list of twenty wisheson which they included learning to knit. But Ellen has quietly added a twenty-first wish: that her mom will fall in love with Tim, Ellen's birth father, who's recently entered their lives. Coming Unraveled by Susan Mallery When Robyn Mulligan's dreams of becoming a Broadway star give way to longing for her childhood home, she returns to Texas, running her grandmother's knitting store. But the handsome, hot-tempered T. J. Passman isn't making it easy on her. If he can learn to trust Robyn, and overcome his tragic past, they just might discover a passion like no other. Return to Summer Island by Christina Skye After a devastating car accident, Caro McNeal is welcomed by a community of knitters on Oregon's sleepy Summer Island. She also finds meaning and purpose in the letters she exchanges with a marine serving in Afghanistan. But when life takes another unexpected turn, will Caro pick up the threads of hope, opening her heart to wherever it takes her? "
Publication Year: 2011
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0I don't read Debbie Macomber so I would have normally skipped right over this book. But I was reading "Already Home" by Susan Mallery (gave it 4 stars, great book) and noticed that Coming Unraveled is set in the same town, so I found my way to this book.
I skipped right over the Debbie Macomber story.
Coming Unraveled was short, sweet and to the point. The story starts off with a little bit of tension due to a misunderstanding. This just sort of fizzles pretty quickly when the hero realizes and admits to being wrong. That is the problem with this story. It's great, but there wasn't a satisfactory tension release, even with the big gesture ending. The story had a good basis, but I think too much was going on to be contained in a short story, and as a result it felt hallow and I didn't really get out of it what I thought I would. So I am sort of torn. I wish wish wish we could have known more about his accident and how he over came it and changed, or her lifestyle in New York and how she has readjusted her dreams, or the grandmother/friends and what they were really about. We got to see glimpses of all of this but there was just not enough space to go through it all.
Interestingly, this short story doesn't contribute anything to Already Home. Sometimes there would be more insight into the town or shared characters but the two stories are very distinctly separate.
Home to Summer Island was the third contribution to this anthology. It was an OK story and I am sure that people who like clean, super idealistic war-based stories would love it. For me, I felt like the romance was under-developed. The heroine had an interesting story going on with her accident and recovery, but towards the end of the story that stuff didn't seem to matter anymore, so it was a bit redundant reading it to begin with. The romance started off really well, but then the long-distance email-flirting made me cringe. Also, if he dropped my email, I'd think he did it on purpose. But I really do feel like my opinion is tainted by the fact that this wasn't my type of story, but other could appreciate it much more.
Bottom line: Comin Unraveled was OK. The other stories, I didn't care too much about. Perhaps knitting lovers will love these stories all the more because they centre on the craft and even provide patterns. But for the casual, non-knitting reader, this book won't get a prime spot on your book shelf.
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