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“Watching Glass Shatter”: Some secrets are better left buried

Posted: July 21, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Book Review, Books, Drama, Review | Tags: , , , , |16 Comments
Watching Glass Shatter

In Watching Glass Shatter, by James J. Cudney, secrets threaten to destroy a family and a legacy with the solidest of foundations. Olivia is a staunch matriarch who controls with an iron fist, or so some have said. When her husband Ben dies in a car crash, she is forced to take a close look at herself as she struggles to deal with the huge secret that he kept from her in what she thought was an open and honest marraige. Once it is dropped in her lap, she must decide how to handle this new knowledge that has the potential to rip apart the life of one of her five sons and change their familial relationships forever.

Olivia decides to spend some time with each of them before making her final decision, but the closer she gets to her sons the more secrets she learns that her family is harboring from one another, each with the potential to destroy family bonds and crumble all they have worked for. This family drama would be worthy of a television soap-opera series, such as Dynasty or Dallas.

The Glass family is well off, having built up a successful law firm which was to be the family business. Although the story is well-written, it seemed to me that things seemed to resolve a little too easily to be fully believable to me. It is a very different world in which I live, but maybe money does bring with it the solutions to many of life’s difficulties more easily. I give Watching Glass Shatter four quills.

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Kaye Lynne Booth does honest book reviews on Writing to be Read in exchange for ARCs. Have a book you’d like reviewed? Contact Kaye at kayebooth(at)yahoo(dot)com.

16 Comments on ““Watching Glass Shatter”: Some secrets are better left buried”

  1. robertawrites235681907 says:
    July 21, 2021 at 9:45 am

    Hi Kaye, this is a good review of Watching Glass Shatter. I also enjoyed it.

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  2. Marje @ Kyrosmagica says:
    July 22, 2021 at 1:54 am

    I enjoyed this very much too, nice review Kaye. 🙂

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  3. Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life. says:
    July 22, 2021 at 2:18 am

    Terrific review Kaye. x

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  4. James J. Cudney IV (Jay) says:
    July 22, 2021 at 5:18 am

    Wow! Thank you so much for this wonderful review… and for sharing it everywhere. I am so grateful, you have been very kind. 🙂

    Things are seemingly wrapped up for all the brothers, but it’s clear in the sequel, not everything was as buttoned up as it appeared. LOL I understand what you are saying!!!

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