Family Blessings

De: Fern Michaels

Narrado por: Laural Merlington

A heartwarming and hilarious New York Times bestseller from Fern Michaels, the acclaimed author of No Place Like Home and Crown Jewel, that will delight and inspire you this and every holiday season!

Right before Thanksgiving, a freak tornado descends on Larkspur, the small town in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains where matriarch and candy magnate Loretta Cisco—affectionately called Cisco by her grandchildren—lives, and levels the home she’s inhabited for fifty years.

Then there’s more bad news: Cisco’s beloved triplet grandchildren, Hannah, Sara, and Sam, all newlyweds, are experiencing marital problems and they refuse to confide in their grandmother about what’s wrong. Sam’s wife, Sonia, has left him, and Hannah and Sara fear that their husbands are having affairs. Why else would they be coming home so late every night and seem to be keeping secrets?

As the citizens of Larkspur help to rebuild Cisco’s home in time for Christmas, she vows to work a holiday miracle that will hold her family together.©2004 First Draft, Inc.; (P)2004 Simon & Schuster Inc. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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First I want to thank Laural Merlington for always doing such a fantastic job of narrating Fern Michael's books! Book 2 about the Cisco Family does provide a whole new epic situation for the family, to either split or figure out how to come together. An unexpected tornado - not just because tornados are usually unexpected; but because of where it hit and what it destroyed. Not only does the family fight through their trials, but the town comes together to help each other. Great short, read!

okay

okay story but the narrator didn't have enough different "voices" so it was confusing

I prefer real people

Too much imagination. Everything falls into place with money and relationships - just like a fairytale

Keeps you wanting for more when finished

Absolutely remarkable and well written novel that is full of key and valuable storyline.

Stepford wives, anyone??

This is the first--and last--Fern Michaels book I'll read. The plot is tortured and overwrought, and the sex roles are worse than the 50's---insipid women and self-absorbed men. The premise of the book---that triplets might need to do some work on becoming separate individuals--might have made an interesting novel in someone else's hands, but the boat plot is unbelievable. Other details, like rebuilding an entire house in a day, also strain credulity.