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    Twelve Times Blessed

    By Jacquelyn Mitchard

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    It is True Dickinson's birthday and her best friends have gathered on this snowy night to celebrate—yet True has never felt more alone. Though her small business is thriving and her young son is happy, the death of her husband eight years ago has left an empty space in her life that friends and family cannot fill. Suddenly it seems that youth and beauty are slipping away while True is busily taking care of everyone else.

    But on this night, an accident on an icy road will offer True the golden opportunity to let love back into her life—if she can somehow conquer her fears.

    Twelve Times Blessed is a powerfully moving novel of the heart from one of our best-loved storytellers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061754876
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    Jacquelyn Mitchard

    New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard has written many novels for adults, including Two If by Sea. She has also written young adult novels; children’s books; a memoir, Mother Less Child; and a collection of essays, The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, later adapted for a feature film starring and produced by Michelle Pfeiffer. Mitchard is the editor in chief and co-creator of Merit Press and a professor of fiction and creative nonfiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband and their nine children.

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    • 3/5
      After reading The Deep End of the Ocean, I have set a high standard for Jacquelyn Mitchard. Unfortunately, this book feel far short of that standard.The heroine of the book, True, is a very successful woman raising a son and running a very profitable business. Her husband died many years ago and she has crafted a family for herself from the competent employees she surrounds herself with as well as her mother who lives in her guest house. The introduction of a much younger man into her small town complicates her life and she finds herself caught up in a whirlwind romance with him which leads to a very sudden marriage.The problems? True never believes herself worthy of Hank. She is jealous to an extreme and constantly belittling herself. I don't know why Hank stayed with her more than a week. I knew I was supposed to be rooting for them to have a happy, long life together but True convinced me she didn't deserve happiness either.
    • 3/5
      I have a tough time downgrading one of Mitchard's books, because I generally really like her writing. Her characters are well drawn, but you just want to slap a couple of them 'upside the head!! Our heroine is swept off her feet by a younger man that falls for her hard and fast, but the problems they have are not unexpected. PLUS, he absolutely should have known that what he did was unforgiveable, and he absolutely did not deserve another chance. Loved the characters. Loved the idea of the business she was running. The story itself? Not so much.
    • 3/5
      The story line lacks the originality and insight into character that is usually seen in Mitchard's books, especially The Deep End of the Ocean and The Most Wanted, and to that extent, Twelve Times Blessed didn't live up to expectations. It's pretty much a standard love the second time round story, except that the protagonist is a good bit older than the new love, resulting in too predictable rocky steps on the relationship pathway. Its strengths, if it has any, are more in the secondary character cameos than in the main cast, especially in members of the lover's Southern family, and how they are perceived by the Cape Cod Northerners. Not nearly as engaging of the reader as Mitchard's earlier books, not quite formula driven but at times perilously close. A pleasant but forgettable read is probably a reasonable assessment. Definitely below Mitchard's usual standard.
    • 2/5
      I have enjoyed Mitchard's previous books, and was surprised to find this book did continue with her earlier promise as an author. I thought the characters were not believable, which makes it difficult to care what happens to them. There simply is no depth to this book. I never quite understood the reasons why True and Hank separated. Their utter self absorption was wearying at best and the plot was too thin to hold my interest. It was an effort to keep reading.