Hearts on a String

by Kris Radish

Bestselling author Kris Radish delves deeply into the emotions of five very different women who are thrown together by chance—only to discover that they have more in common than they ever could have imagined.
 
Holly Blandeen has always cherished the story her grandmother told her about the thread that connects all women, tying them forever in sisterhood. It’s a beautiful idea, but with all the curveballs life has thrown her way, Holly has often felt isolated, different from other women. That starts to change when she meets four strangers in an airport and they agree to share a luxury hotel suite because a powerful spring storm is barreling across the country, stranding travelers from California to Florida. What begins as a spur-of-the-moment decision becomes an unlikely, unexpected, and sometimes reluctant exercise in female bonding, as these five exceptional women—each at a crossroads—swap stories, share secrets, and seek answers to the questions they’ve been asking about life, love, and the path to true happiness. A storm may have grounded them for the moment, but after this wild adventure in which anything can and does happen, they’ll never have to fly solo again. 

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit, Womens Fiction, Book Club, Contemporary, Adult, Humor

324 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Kris started writing the moment she could hold a pencil. She grew up in Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a journalism degree and hit the ground running. Her father called her "the tornado". She worked as a newspaper reporter, bureau chief, nationally syndicated columnist, magazine writer, university lecturer, bartender, waitress, worm harvester, window washer....to name a few. Her first two books were non-fiction and then Radish became a full-time novelist. The Elegant Gathering of White Snows, Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn, The Sunday List of Dreams, Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral and Searching for Paradise in Parker, P.A., The Shortest Distance Between Two Women, Hearts on a String, Tuesday Night Miracles, A Grand Day to Get Lost and The Year of Necessary Lies have won her acclaim and a great following. Her eleventh novel, A Dangerous Woman From Nowhere is being released in 2017. She is also the author of three works of non-fiction, Gravel on the side of the Road-Stories From A Broad Who Has Been There, Run, Bambi Run-The Beautiful Ex-Cop and Convicted Murderer Who Escaped to Freedom and Won America's Heart and The Birth Order Effect: How to Better Understand Yourself and Others. She is working on a book poetry, two new novels, a book of non-fiction and a few bottles of wine.

Reviews

[Melodie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is my third Kris Radish book. She is all about exploring female relationships and beats the drum loudly. That is what I like about her. She is also funny. I like that too. And what I like most? She develops characters that initially exasperate and frustrate me. Then slowly(sometimes too slowly) they grow on me and I'm invested in what happens to them.
Five women meet in an airport restroom. Sounds like an opening joke line.And what follows is a farcical scene that could come straight out of I Love Lucy. After that, they are thrown together as a storm of the century barrels through, leaving them uncertain room mates.Each woman has secrets and their time together is filled with drama of the first order. But underlying all that is the tie that binds, their woman's heart.
While I didn't care for this one as much as her other work, I did like it. Anyone who celebrates the heart of women is aces in my book.

[SueK · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was prepared to be somewhat disappointed in this book, because there are so many negative reviews. I have to say that I, once again, love Radish. Granted, with two absolutely stellar books (IMO - Annie Freeman, and Elegant Gathering)we are bound to like some of her work a little less. And yes, some of this was a stretch, but it's FICTION, it's reading for PLEASURE. If I wanted a dose of depressing reality, I'd watch the news.
There were a couple places I was disappointed, primarily when, instead of describing a scene, the reader is told, "it's just the way you would imagine it." I don't want to imagine it - I want you to set the scene; I still get plenty of opportunities to visualize and use my imagination. Because of this type of thing occurring in the book, I'm giving it a three star rating - but that's a strong three. For Radish's once again famous take on female relationships, and the reminder of the fun and power we all should harness, I would like to give it a four or more.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

From My Blog...[return][return]An endearing novel showing how women are inter-connected, Hearts on a String by Kris Radish begins with a woman explaining to her young great-granddaughter that a string connects all women, some women instinctively know and others eventually find this out. Flash forward almost thirty years to a bathroom, across from a bar in the Tampa International Airport, where investment banker Nan Telvid drops her iPhone into the toilet and soon four women, Patti, Cathy, Margo, and Holly come to her aid. While these five strangers are deciding a way to retrieve the telephone, it is announced that the airport will be shutting down due to weather. These five strangers decide to make the best of a bad situation by sharing a suite in the luxurious Rivera.[return][return]While the reasoning behind how these women end up sharing a suite may appear implausible, it serves a greater purpose. Radish writes a beautiful novel full of emotions that come from five different women in different stages of their lives and from different parts of the United States coming together under stressful circumstances. It took about 45 pages to really grab my interest as everything appeared so implausible, but then I became curious as to what would happen to these women next and without warning I was nearing the end of a beautiful, heart-warming, endearing and at times painful novel of five women coming into their own and learning from each other. Each woman is described in detail throughout the novel rather than one at a time, working well with the message Radish offers her readers and by the end of the four days, it feels as thought the reader is connected to these women. Let me state upfront, had I not been asked to review this book I would have not read past the initial bathroom scene and I would have missed out on a wonderful novel. If I could change anything about the novel, it would be the ending, and not how the novel ends, as that is brilliant, but rather the formatting; it is simply a personal preference of mine.[return][return]Hearts on a String is a remarkable novel of friendship, trust, blind faith, and what it means to be a woman. I noted some poor reviews and wonder if people gave up in the beginning for the reason I stated above. Please do not give up, rather keep reading, it is very much worth getting to know these five women and the gifts they offer to each other. I would recommend Hearts on a String as a wonderful summer read and would be interested to hear of any book groups who have discussed this book. I think the characters would agree this is a book to be shared.

[Suzanne · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received this book as a first-read from goodreads, and I was so excited to read it, but unfortunately, it was not a great read.
In the beginning of the book, I had to keep trying to remember who each character was, because as each character develops, there is always dialogue and actions from all five of the woman characters.
The five women meet by chance in the bathroom of an airport during a major storm. The book takes alot of twists and has some surprises, but seems to lose the reader several times in between. I found my mind wondering away from the book, and it lacked the excitement that could have been a great read.

[Abbie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I won this book in the Goodreads giveaway. I had a hard time getting through it. I felt the characters were poorly developed and inconsistent in their behaviors. One thing that also bothered me was that a lot of the metaphors were over the top and seemed almost cheesy. It was mentioned several times how crazy the women felt it was that they had stayed in the hotel with each other, yet they did it. Also, the whole fbi thing was a little unbelievable. Overall, I did not develop an attachment to the storyline.

[Tristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really loved this book. I am a big fan of friendship based stories, and this book totally gives me than. The underlining theme of the book is female friendship and it is just pretty and heartwarming, while being quirky and kind of strained at times. The only reason I don't give it five stars is it gets a little confusing at times (i.e. who is speaking, who is who for the first couple chapters, the pronoun "she" is used a lot while being a book about all women lol), especially and the "busy" ending. May just be me though? Otherwise it is awesome and I really hope Radish writes some more books in this theme (-:

[Mystique · Rating 1 out of 5]

This has the potential to be a decent beach read...unfortunately, it isn't. Does the author really feel that it's necessary to swear every 3rd sentence? I'm no prude, but it takes me completely out of the story to have to read, "Damn", "Hell", "Holy Hell", and "Sweet whatever" every 5 seconds when it's not even in context. Come on, Radish...find another way to lend credence to your ridiculous story.

The writing is amateurish - for instance, things that are actually outrageous are supposed to just be accepted. Example: (and these aren't really spoilers, because they happen so early and are mentioned in the synopsis) - an iPhone gets so lodged in a toilet that it can't be removed by hand...and there is a storm so awful that it shuts down 75% of the airports across a country as large as the US. Both of these things are extremely unlikely, yet the reader is asked to accept them as fact.

What is not so hard to accept is that 5 women would prefer to stay in a nice hotel room with a few strangers than in an airport with lots of strangers, however; the author makes this seem like outlandish behavior, completely counterintuitive to the "normal" person. She goes on and on and on about how CRRAAAAZY these women are for doing such a thing. (Really? Who wouldn't?) There are other examples of that kind of strangeness. And then, the idea that one woman would throw a $350 (conservatively) iPhone into the toilet intentionally, because she's upset with her husband!? Come on.

There are also examples of strange sentences that make no sense. The sentence starts out by talking about one character doing something and ends up talking about another character doing something entirely unrelated.

It really is one of the strangest books I've read recently from a writing perspective.

I wanted to like this book, because it was recommended to me by some dear women in my family, and they did love it. But, I just couldn't. :(

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

What happens when five women who are strangers meet in an airport bathroom, and after being stranded by a surprise storm, decide to get a suite together in a five-star hotel?

Well it could have been a fun story, full of women finding out how much they have in common, laughing at each others stories, reveling in their womanhood, motherhood and sisterhood.

Instead the majority of the story wound up being a bunch of nagging and nit-picking women constantly griping at one another, rolling their eyes, bemoaning their decisions to ever share a room with one another.

Patti was probably the most likable of the characters for me initially, although later on Holly became quite likable as well, and over time you begin to see the appeal of each woman. After all, we are all beautiful in all of our flawed glory! The characters were developed quite fully, so that I could begin to identify with them. We've all known these women in our lives. Most of us would see a little of ourselves in each of them.

It was probably the middle of this story that I enjoyed the most. My problem in the beginning was the constant nit-picking and griping by all of the women. About halfway through the story, the plot just took a pretty preposterous turn. At that point, soon after losing my annoyance with the characters for their intolerance of one another (and soon after enjoying the turn in the characters attitudes), I became instead annoyed with the author for throwing so many different storylines into the story that it became the "Perfect Storm" of preposterousness.

I had great hopes for this story, but in the end it was just "eh".

[Jackie · Rating 1 out of 5]

First off, let me say that this is not my typical read. I usually avoid "chick lit" as it generally strikes me as sappy, not very well written and manipulative.

That said, I did read this one through to the end and not toss it aside in favor of something else in my stack.

I did find it pretty unbelievable, although the characters (at least to me) were more fully developed than I expected after reading other reviews.

I continue to be dismayed by the language. Really. I don't know any women who talk the way these (supposedly bright, educated) women speak. If I had been inclined to quit reading this book that would have been the cause.

I'm not awfully motivated to find other books by this author after reading this one.

However, there were a couple passages that I would like to remember:

"And yet there is a glimpse, a small yearning, of what life might be like for women like this. Women who have girlfriends...Women who have a sacred spot inside of their own hearts for a woman they love who is a constant reminder of loyalty, honesty, all the good things that can come into your life...Women who know that the call will always be answered without hesitation. Women who can at any given moment fill the hollow pit of loneliness that sometimes cripples them. All of this and so much more, because of that one thing: She is a woman, like me."

"I was around the wrong people. People who always wanted me to be like them or live like them and I always hesitated and they took that as a sign of failure. But now I know it was the real me stepping up, because I can't live like them or like anyone else but myself."

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won this book on the Goodreads book give-away. This is the first time I have read a pre-edited version of a book and at first it was a little distracting. I wanted to get out my red pen and proofread as I was going. Don't these typesetters know about spell check? Now I have that out of my system, I can get on with the story itself.

The story was a little bizarre and unrealistic, but that kind of added to the fun. I had a little trouble getting into it in the beginning, but I just had to keep reading to find out what adventures these women were getting themselves into. The premise of the story is that there is an invisible thread that binds all women together, no matter how different they are. I thought this was really nice, because I do believe that women share that bond of sisterhood that only they understand.

Five women randomly meet in an airport restroom when they try to rescue one woman's cell phone from the toilet. In the meantime, a raging storm is brewing that shuts down the airports in most of the country. One woman suggests that they all go back to her hotel suite and stay together instead of sleeping in the airport. The women range in age from early twenty-something to mid-sixties and no two of them are alike. I don't want to say anything about the plot to give it away, but I'll just tell you that nothing like this would happen in real life. I thought the book was quite entertaining and humorous in parts. Just don't try to take the book too seriously. Overall, it was a nice change of pace and a quick read.

[Christy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I won this book from a Goodreads giveaway. I really, really, really wanted to like this book. So much so that I tried 4 different times to pick it back up. I finally MADE myself finish it because I'm one of those people that can't leave books unfinished. I was very disappointed. I'm probably being generous with 2 stars....It was that disappointing.

I realize that it was an advanced copy, but many of the typos were just plain distracting. I can't believe some of the obvious errors weren't fixed before it came off the first press, advanced or not. (It seems that I wasn't the only one who wanted to whip out the red pen.) The story line fell way short of my expectations. The entire middle was incredibly slow. The descriptions of the characters every movement, facial expression, comment out loud, and comments in their own minds was just too much to keep track of. It was just "too much" to read what everyone was doing, as well as be able to know every single character's thoughts (all 5 of them!). Oftentimes, it felt like I was reading a movie manuscript it was so overly descriptive. (It actually would have been funnier in a movie-format. Then the witty humor and quips back & forth, and the dynamics of the female relationships would have translated much better.) The story line finally got interesting during the last few chapters, but by that point I was just so beyond done, that I could barely muster the excitement for the finale. I hate to say it, but this one was just not a hit for me.

[LORI CASWELL · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

Dollycas’s 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 didn’t like this one as much as I did The Elegant Gathering of White Snows, but it’s a engaging story of unlikely friendships.

[Rosi · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a book I won from the Goodreads book give-away. Having never read a "pre-edited" book before, I have to say the typos and errors are annoying and distracting.

On to the story. In this story you will find: female bonding, psychics, murder, embezzlement, adultery, stalking, self-esteem issues, working mom issues, adult-child of alcoholic issues, lonliness and a storm. All wrapped up in a Florida beach resort. There is something for everyone.....but for me, there is too much.

I love the female bonding theme - I believe this is important for women of all ages. Our spouses and children may leave, but our 'girls' are with us through thick and thin, disaster and celebration. AMEN! So, why keep telling us over and over and over again how these women are skeptical and uncomfortable and wished they didn't agree to stay together? This issue was clear just by the women's comments and behavior. And why add so many subplots?

Give me five women stuck in a room for a few days with nowhere to go, with food and alcohol to subsist on.....and let the conversations rip!!
The insights, self-esteem issues, fear, honesty and courage will present themselves without the crimes and disasters.

Kris Radish did a better job of telling the value of women's friendships in "Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn".

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love to read Kris Radish books. She and Nora Roberts can kick start a reading slump for me and this one did it, I think. We'll see when I try to go back to classics. Hah.

A group of women are in an airport restroom when one drops her phone in the toilet, the others try to help. The airport announces flights cancelled due to monster storm all around the country causing flight issues. So, the 5 women head back to Nan's hotel and takes the one room still available for her.
The book is the story of 5 crazy, whacky, very different women being stuck together in one hotel room over a period of several days. They learn much about each other and about themselves, although each of them tries to hide their inside selves. At points you think they will kill each other, after all they start out as strangers and know nothing about each other, except as women they've made connections. That's the point. We, as women, have a string that connects our spirits, our hearts, our selves.
"It is a string as fine as the eyelash on a soaring bird and when Margo, then Holly, Nan, Cathy and Patti open their eyes, they can see the string looping around necks, down shoulders, through arms and ankles, and then passing from one of them to another, until they all know, they really know that they are tied together in the same way all women are tied together." ~ Kris Radish.

[Phillis · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book was so boring in the begining I probably would not have finished it had it not been this month's book club book read. I have to admit, it got better. Not a whole lot, but enough to keep it interesting. There were some funny parts that I actually laughed out loud. One was when 4 of the woman in the hotel elevator with their weapons; a rat-tail comb, a can of hair spray, and two butter knives. The were looking for the 5th woman and they meant business. Trouble is they looked it too and scared a couple of men who were going to get on the elevator but changed their minds after seeing the woman. Mostly this was a book about 5 woman who got thrown into a situation due to a sudden spring storm that grounded all flights out. These woman all were in the same ladies room at the Tampa airport when their flights were canceled. Their idea of sharing a hotel room until the storm passes throws them into a complex relationship and some female bonding. I did like the prologue where the author says that all woman are connected by a string that goes from heart to heart and if necessary we can pull this string to bring our female friends to help us out. We have that unique ability that men don't even consider.

[Bianca · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this book from the goodreads giveaway and couldn't wait to start reading it.

After five women meet randomly in an airport bathroom they find out there is a big storm warning and their departures have been canceled until further notice. These five women do not know each other but they all decide to go and share a room at a fancy hotel. All five women have their doubts, secrets, and worries plus all of them know what they are doing is crazy. Although they know the idea of sharing a room with five complete strangers is insane they do it anyways. As the book progresses each women slowly starts to open up and some unexpected things begin to happen.

I really liked this book. It was fun and nice to read. At the beginning keeping the characters straight was a challenge but it gradually got easier. Also, the scenarios in the book are not really believable but if I wanted that I would just go pick up a non-fiction book. So besides the character mix-up at the beginning and the fact you might want to read something that sounds more real than fiction I really recommend checking it out.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bestselling author Kris Radish delves deeply into the emotions of five very different women who are thrown together by chance—only to discover that they have more in common than they ever could have imagined.

Holly Blandeen has always cherished the story her grandmother told her about the thread that connects all women, tying them forever in sisterhood. It’s a beautiful idea, but with all the curveballs life has thrown her way, Holly has often felt isolated, different from other women. That starts to change when she meets four strangers in an airport and they agree to share a luxury hotel suite because a powerful spring storm is barreling across the country, stranding travelers from California to Florida. What begins as a spur-of-the-moment decision becomes an unlikely, unexpected, and sometimes reluctant exercise in female bonding, as these five exceptional women—each at a crossroads—swap stories, share secrets, and seek answers to the questions they’ve been asking about life, love, and the path to true happiness. A storm may have grounded them for the moment, but after this wild adventure in which anything can and does happen, they’ll never have to fly solo again.

[Megan Palasik · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this book as a first-reads giveaway winner.

I liked this book a lot more than I originally thought I would. This is the story of 5 women who meet in an airport restroom and form a bond over the following 4 days. They didn't always get along and they didn't always like each other, but in the end, they formed a wonderful bond.

This is a wonderful story of womanhood, strength, companionship, and adventure. It's not just a fluff-filled women knitting and drinking tea story. There is a surprisingly exciting adventure that I don't want to give away.

Toward the end of the story I thought it was dragging on a bit and I was waiting for the last page. However, at the very end, everything came together very nicely and I was happy with the ending.

One thing I did not like was the cover. I think the women riding down stair railings is very cheesy and has nothing to do with the story at all. If I had not won this but had seen this book at the bookstore, I would not have even picked it up based on the cover and the title.

[Alissa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really didn't care for this book. The premise that five women who are strangers and stranded at the airport and decide to get a hotel room together where through the time spent together and experiences shared they become friends sounded like it could be interesting. However, for a good portion of the book, the reader is reminded of how uncomfortable they feel, how the environment is hostile, and how they wonder if it would have been better sleeping in the airport for three days. A good deal of drinking goes on (all day long--every day), which is when they do manage to share their deepest darkest secrets with each other. Miraculously by the end they are BFF's, yet they still need three or four shots of tequilla before they can say what they need to to each other before they say goodbye. Maybe an infusion of more humor (it was pretty scarce) would have made it better for me---I don't know.

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I feel kind of confused after reading this book. The cover and title made me think it would be somewhat of a chick-lit book, as did the first 3/5 of the book. But then suddenly it turned into a mystery and fantasy story and went downhill from there. I really liked the premise of 5 complete strangers waiting out a storm in a hotel room together, and that's why I enjoyed reading the first half of the book. I even laughed out loud a few times. But then everything got turned around and I lost track of what story I was supposed to be reading.

Not to mention the typos that actually made it difficult to read the book. I've never read an ARC before, so maybe this is to be expected, but there were not only minor spelling errors but actual main characters' names being misspelled and mixed up. I had no idea what was going on a few times which definitely took away from the flow of the story.

[Judy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received this book as one of the giveaways. It took me awhile to finally read it but it was worth the wait. I really enjoyed it. Some of the reviews say the book is unrealistic and that the author is too wordy. Maybe the premise of 5 women sharing a hotel suite during a storm is a little unrealistic, but I looked at it as something that could maybe happen with my co-workers during a blizzard or some natural catastrophe. People staying in close quarters, even best friends, are bound to get on each other's nerves.
I like the women- each one had her own very separate personality and also a secret. I think that applies to most of us. During the course of the hotel stay, the women learn much about each other and bond over wine, talk and food.
When the book ended, I wanted to keep reading and follow the women through the next year.

[Jackye · Rating 4 out of 5]

Somewhat implausible, but entertaining, story about 5 women who meet in a airport restroom. One of the women, Nan, has dropped her iphone into the toilet. The other women help her remove it, when she promptly stomps it with her foot. The women are Patti, a club singer, Cathy, an executive at Wendy's who is having an affair with Nan's husband, Holly, a hairstylist who finds she is a psychic, and Margo, a woman who appears to be a housewife and mother, but is also an FBI agent.

Nan's husband has been an inside trader, using information from Nan's work. The 5 woman spend 4 days together in a luxurious suit in Tampa, while a storm rages outside. They do a lot of drinking, soul searching and discovery about themselves and the others.

They all end up friends at the end. I would read more books by this author.

[Kathleen Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am a fan of Kris Radish and was so excited to receive Hearts on a String from Early Reviewers. The concept of women meeting randomly in a restroom was enticeing, however less believable that the plots in earlier books ( The Elegant Gathering of White Snows) (Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral). I was still excited! This ended by the time these women were riding to the fancy hotel that one of the woman paid for and did not regain my interest until I got to the Texting at the End. What happens to them seems to be explained to us rather than each charactor growing. It never came alive for me and I literally forced myself to read this book because I so love the author. I have to say I was disappointed.

[JackieK · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won an advance reader copy of this book and was anxious to get started. The book started off really slow. All of the characters were introduced at once and it was really hard to remember who was who and hard to get to know them as a result. I was probably 70 pages into the book before I began to easily identify each character and remember who they were. One thing I found disconcerting throughout the book is that I didn't feel connected to any of the characters.

The story got better as the book progressed. The plot of the story was not what I expected. I do feel, however, that the book didn't live up to the full potential of the plot.

I would rate this book a 2.5 and as a result am rounding up to 3.

[Jean · Rating 3 out of 5]

After reading "The Elegant Gathering of White Snows", I was looking for another book about female friendship (making up for in books what I lack in real life). I struggled through the 1st three-quarters of this book, but some crazy twists that I didn't see coming livened up the ending.

I'm glad I finished it because it was really in the ending that I found the parts that make me enjoy Kris Radish's work; the printed word version of feelings I've been having as a woman, a mother, a professional, and a wife. I look to Kris to reassure me that what my heart feels isn't outlandish or crazy or stupid and so far, she hasn't disappointed.

So all in all, I enjoyed the story but wish it had moved a bit quicker or maybe with a bit more organization in the beginning.

[Laura Rogers · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Kris Radish's flawed but lovable female characters. Her books always remind me to cherish my women friends and cohorts and renew my belief in the importance and strength of the connection between women. This book has all of this and enough twists and turns to keep me flipping pages way into the night. I longed to be friends with these women! A woman's book for sure but I don't have a problem with that.

[Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book seemed to move very slowly and most of the way through I felt like I didn't know some big secret and felt really confused. When I got to the end, I realized that is how the characters felt too and have decided yet again Ms. Radish knows EXACTLY what she is doing and again (as usual following a Kris Radish book) I feel great appreciation for the women in my life after reading this book.

[Ann · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't really enjoy the book. It was mildly entertaining and highly unrealistic. I didn't care for any of the characters enough and/or the experiences they were going through. Glad that it ended on such an upbeat note, but all the characters bitched and wondered what they were doing together for about 90% of the book. It became very tiresome to read.

[Loretta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five women meet for the first time in an airport restroom over a cell phone dropped into a toilet. Then flights are canceled because of weather. Then five women rushed to rent a car and get into a hotel room to wait out the storm. What happens next is a series of events that end up connecting their hearts on a string, "the thread that connects all women, tying them forever in sisterhood".

[Nilda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crazy, crazy book about crazy, crazy ladies. But at the end, after a couple of cliffhanger chapters, it all makes sense.
This a fun and fast read. And keeps with the female are stronger together theme of other Kris Radish books.