Book Review/ Giveaway: Twelve Rooms with a View by Theresa Rebeck

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I was the lucky winner in last month's Read It Forward Contest from Crown Publishing/Random House, and received this great book to review!

Synopsis:  How would it feel to go overnight from living in a trailer park to a twelve-room apartment overlooking Central Park in a landmark Victorian building? This is what happens to house cleaner Tina Finn, who, with her sisters, Alison and Lucy, suddenly comes into possession of the Livingston Mansion Apartment at the Edgewood. The Finn sisters inherit the $11 million property from their estranged alcoholic mother, but they aren't the only siblings vying for it. Their mother's wealthy second husband, Bill—who died just three weeks before Tina's mother—has two sons. And they are furious at the thought of losing the apartment that's been in their family for generations.

About the Author:  

THERESA REBECK is the author of the novel Three Girls and Their Brother. Her plays include Our House, Bad Dates, Omnium Gatherum (a Pulitzer finalist), The Scene, and Mauritius, which won Boston’s prestigious IRNE and the Elliot Norton Awards and premiered on Broadway in 2007. Rebeck lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York.

Review: I adored this book! I knew when I signed up to win it that it sounded pretty good, but it far surpassed my expectations!  Things are not as simple as they seem in the synopsis- the apartment holds as many secrets as each set of siblings do, and how they come out is not as you would expect. The book is a great character study and if you have siblings, you probably are gonna recognize aspects of your siblings' characters in Rebeck's characters in this book. This is a great summer read- the nuances are light and make you want to keep turning the pages. The end if satisfying and uplifting and will make you cheer!  I HIGHLY recommend you put this book on your summer reading list!

The Giveaway

One winner will receive this review copy of 12 Rooms!

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Disclosure / Disclaimer:  I received this book, free of charge, as a contest win, the same as any other reader could have won, from Random House's Read It Forward Program. No compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to review the book.