Their push and pull is really interesting and fun, and I love it when books focus on a close family unit. The writing is really good, and I love the focus on the three sisters as protagonists. That’s not to say that I disliked the novel. More on this in the spoilery section at the end. Gemma, at least for the majority of the novel, is immune to the baby fever and as a direct result of that, she is my favorite character.

Then Dan cheats on Cat and suddenly her whole life is about Dan’s infidelity and the fact that if she splits up with her husband in her thirties, she may never have a chance to procreate. Cat really, really, really wants a baby and she and her husband, Dan, are actively trying to conceive. Lyn has a toddler and she and her husband, Michael, are idly contemplating having a second kid. I know I’m supposed to sympathize, but seriously.Ĭhildren dominate Three Wishes. I am very, very annoyed by stories about pregnancy in general, but when characters can’t have them, they suddenly turn into defunct baby factories: the only thing that’s important to or about them is what they can’t do. Everyone has a few personal pet peeves, and this is one of mine. I love her writing, but between books I forget that she is deeply obsessed with pregnancy and women who desperately want, but who are unable to have, children. Liane Moriarty, unfortunately, is the opposite. There are some authors that I love precisely because they visit and revisit themes that resonate strongly with me. I notice that there are major themes and even types of characters who pop up in all the fiction that I write. There’s nothing wrong with this, obviously. You start to see what subjects are important to the writer. It is really interesting to read a lot of books from the same author, because you start to see patterns across the body of work. Three Wishes is mostly the story of how they got there. They love each other fiercely, but one birthday dinner ends up with one sister throwing a fondue fork at her pregnant sister. I adored The Husband’s Secret and The Hypnotist’s Love Story, really liked Big Little Lies, and mostly liked What Alice Forgot and Truly Madly Guilty.Ĭat, Gemma, and Lyn are triplets who are at once very similar and incredibly different. I love Moriarty’s writing, especially in the first few books that I read. Liane Moriarty is one of my favorite non-YA writers, so when I found out about Three Wishes, which is her first novel, I knew I had to read it.

Truly madly guilty plot