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Book Reviews of Hearts on a String

Hearts on a String
Hearts on a String
Author: Kris Radish
ISBN-13: 9780553384758
ISBN-10: 0553384759
Publication Date: 5/25/2010
Pages: 336
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
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3 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

dollycas avatar reviewed Hearts on a String on + 704 more book reviews
A group of women meet for the very first time in an airport bathroom in Florida. They seem to come together while helping one of the women retrieve her cell phone that has fallen into the toilet. Just as soon as the phone is saved an announcement shocks them all. The airport is closing due to a freak storm. No flights are going anywhere. Their choices are few, camp out in the airport with hundreds/thousands of other people for God knows how long or share a luxury hotel suite. They choose the hotel suite of course, and that is when this spur of the moment decision takes them on a very unexpected trip that could change their lives.

Dollycass Thoughts
This was not my favorite Kris Radish book but after a slow start I really did enjoy it. This random group of women thrown together under strange circumstances and trying to cope with their huge differences was interesting, funny, sad and at times pretty unbelievable but I just went with it. Each woman was exceptional in their own way, handling some kind of stressful circumstances in each of their own lives and by sharing their stories it helped them to develop a weird type of bond. The psychic convention and another back story were a little over the top and I am not sure if these elements were even necessary to a book that may have been stronger without them. I didnt like this one as much as I did The Elegant Gathering of White Snows, but its a engaging story of unlikely friendships.
buttons121 avatar reviewed Hearts on a String on + 4 more book reviews
I finished this despite a questionable start. It was good, but doesn't measure up to other Radish books.
reviewed Hearts on a String on + 54 more book reviews
Wow, I don't even know where to start with this one. Five unbelievable characters are stranded together in a hotel during a hurricaine. They spend 3/4 of the book cat fighting until, just when you think it will never end, the "twist" occurs, which is also so unbelievable it's laughable. It is, however, their "bonding experience" and the book ends with everyone teary-eyed and loving each other.

I used to be a HUGE Kris Radish fan. This will be my last Radish book. Sorry Kris.