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The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons
Author: Mary Alice Monroe
ISBN-13: 9780778320180
ISBN-10: 0778320189
Publication Date: 2/1/2004
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 36 ratings
Publisher: Mira
Book Type: Paperback
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32 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed The Four Seasons on + 17 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
A woman's book about friends who are sisters and sisters who are friends. Thogh bound by blood, they are separated by tragedy. Their collective journeys are about personal and familial redemption. A good read.
SanJoseCa avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 328 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
A story of three sisters, with different temperments and interests, looking for love and through the growth of each character from within, finding love.
This book is for anyone who had a sister or who wished they had a sister. A wonderful women's fiction!
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Helpful Score: 4
I loved this book!!! It is not really a romance but it does have elements of romance in it. It is a warm intimate book about sisters and love and rediscovering who we really are. I laughed and cried. I felt joy and sorrow. This is a book full of tenderness and hardship.
Great read!!!!
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Helpful Score: 4
THis was a very well written book about sisters who come to terms with things that happened in their childhood that were "never discussed" even amongst themselves. It is also about love of family and finding love. It was a good read and I enjoyed it.
bookwormmama avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 29 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I really enjoyed this book, it captivated me from the beginning to the end. I wouldn't call it a great literary piece, but the story is good, characters are engaging, and there is enough tragedy to make it a good read. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the relationship of the four sisters. I have two sisters, so I can relate to a lot of the feelings between the women. A good read overall and I recommend it.
FabN46 avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 103 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is one of the BEST books I have ever read! Did NOT want this one to end!!!

A time for change...and second chances. They are the Season sisters, bound by blood, driven apart by a tragedy. Now they are about to embark on a bittersweet journey into the unknown; an odyssey of promise and forgiveness of loss and rediscovery.

Jillian, Beatrice and Rose have gathered for the funeral of their younger sister, Meredith. Her death, and the legacy she leaves them, will trigger a cross-country journey in search of a stranger - a stranger with the power to mend their shattered lives. As the emotions of the past reverberate into the present, Jilly, Birdie and Rose search for the girls they once were - in hopes of finding what they had really lost; the women they were meant to be.
reviewed The Four Seasons on + 180 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
You'll love Mary Alice Monroe. She writes another good book about relationships and sisters.
reviewed The Four Seasons on + 25 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I loved this book. It was a heartwarming story about sister who had to face their past so they could move forward into their future. Great!
reviewed The Four Seasons on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
a quick read about 3 sisters and their relationship and how they face the past after the 4th sisters death
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Helpful Score: 2
This was a very interesting family story with some mystery and the reuniting of 3 sisters after the many years they were driven apart by a family tragedy.
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Helpful Score: 2
Another very good book by Mary Alice Monroe. A story of sisters who grew apart after a family tragedy and how they are able to reunite as a family again with new understanding about each other.
susiepie avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 40 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A very heart-warming story filled with life's trials and triumphs, and the bond between friends and family.
Mouseybrat avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
a little slow to start but otherwise good.
nunnona05 avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 21 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Story about a family's love - great book!
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Helpful Score: 1
very good book
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Helpful Score: 1
The Season Sisters have come together for a funeral, and stay together to find a baby, now 26 years old. It is an easy read. I found myself thinking of ways for the author to tie up the loose ends. I liked this a lot!
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Helpful Score: 1
When one of the four Season sisters dies, the family is thrown into turmoil at her last request. I did enjoy this book.
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Helpful Score: 1
Sister bound by blood gather together to mourn the lost of a younger sister. Mary Alice Monroe writes from the heart about the tragedy that triggers a journey to mend their hearts
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Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book! Mary Alice Monroe is one of my favorite authors. Definitely worth reading!
cranbery avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 530 more book reviews
Great read......A time for change and second chances.....
robine4206 avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 50 more book reviews
I liked this book. I liked the characters and the story line and I found the situations that the characters were in to be totally believable. For me it was well written and because of that it was a fast read. I'm sure i will look for other books written by her to read.
Tunerlady avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 581 more book reviews
This the best Mary Alice Monroe book I've read! And that is saying alot, since I love all of her books. This one struck perhaps a more personal chord with me since it was about adoption, and eventually finding the birth child and reconcilation with sisters and one's self. A great read with good characters.
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A moving novel about the special friendship between sisters.
They are the Season sisters, bound by blood, driven apart by a tragedy. Now they are about to embark on a bittersweet journey into the unknown, an odyssey of promise and forgiveness, of loss and rediscovery.
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Good read.
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This is a great story about four sisters. The reader gets glimpses into their lives a little bit at a time. The author reveals things and then writes about another aspect of their lives. The story kept me interested all the way through it. I couldn't wait to find out what happens in the end. Excellent read! I highly recommend this book and this author.
katycarey5 avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 11 more book reviews
Great book, easy summer reading.
very realistic specially if you have sisters!
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Another great read by this author I have yet to read a book of hers that I did not like. You feel like you are part of the story. Pick up any of her books and you will not be disappointed
smileen avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on + 249 more book reviews
Heartwarming family relationship story (my favorite) about four sisters and the way they face the traumas in their lives. This story shows them from their childhood until adulthood, being together, being apart. They are all together for a family tragedy which had started when they were children, each one carrying their own guilt about what happened. I love the way this author writes, stripping layers off each character, each one so different.
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Sisters Jillian, Rose & Beatrice gather for the funeral of their younger sister Meredith. Things-and people are not at all what they seem to be. The past is revisited and ties that bind are tested in this novel.
luce avatar reviewed The Four Seasons on
Slow to start~BUT~ the true writer that Mary Alice Monroe is ~came out and left you wanting more ~
I give it a 4 star~
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Jilliam, Beatrice, and Rose have gathered for the funeral of their younger sister, Meredith. Her death, and the legacy she leaves them, will trigger a cross country journey in search of a stranger.
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They are the Season sisters, bound by blood, driven apart by tragedy. Now theya re about to embark on a bittersweet journey into the unknow: an odyssey of promis and forgiveness of loss and rediscovery.
Jillian, Beatrice and Rose have gathered for the funeral of their younger sister Meredith. Her death, and the legacy she leaves them, will trigger a cross country journey in search of a stranger- a stranger with the power to mend their shattered lives.