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Review by Lunupine -- American River: Tributaries
[Following is a volunteer review of "American River: Tributaries" by Mallory M. O'Connor.]
American River: Tributaries by Mallory M. O'Connor has three different families who experience hardships, the Morales family, the Ashida family, and lastly is the McPhalan Family. These three families migrated to America and meet years later in the American River Trilogy . The Ashida family and McPhalan family worked closely on the Mockingbird Valley Ranch before the Ashida family had to leave. Kate McPhalan and Tommy Ashida had fallen in love, and both of their families were against it. David Ashida felt Tommy had shammed him and could no longer work there because of it, so he resigned and moved his family to his brother's home to work with him.
Carl Fitzgerald Morales is his last name, but he changed it, and Marian PcPhalan meets while in San Francisco and had a love affair. Marian moved there because Alex was seeking to better her music education and earn a scholarship to a college of her decision. Marian in return was struggling to establish her dream of being an artist. During this the last PcPhalan, Julian had run away from home because of his father Owen, who made him feel like he was worthless. He turned to drugs and working with clients to pay his drug addiction. Then he meets Alan, who changed his life around.
O'Connor centered this work around heartbreak and love interests. Tommy and Kate's relationship did not work out as she meets Carl while she is in college. Marian and Carl were together for a summer before Carl went someplace else and broke things off. Alex mentioned that Marian also had another affair because she felt like her mother was just using her. Julian had the worse off than everybody else right off to the very end. I was on the edge the whole time assuming that something else will happen or that Alex would spill a secret just because she could. If could I would read the other books in the trilogy.
One thing I did not like about this book is about the watermark, which is on each page and makes for a hard reading a couple of times. The words are in this pale black words with one bold that sometimes lines up just right with the sentence that makes it hard to read a word here or there. It did not happen all that frequent, but this is in pdf form so this whom choose a different form hopefully would not have to deal with this.
I rate this 4 out of 4 . I did not notice any spelling errors or any grammar errors. This would be recommend this to anyone who likes historical fiction and generational books mixed into one. One thing I do caution that this book this have an intimate aspect to it.
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American River: Tributaries
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American River: Tributaries by Mallory M. O'Connor has three different families who experience hardships, the Morales family, the Ashida family, and lastly is the McPhalan Family. These three families migrated to America and meet years later in the American River Trilogy . The Ashida family and McPhalan family worked closely on the Mockingbird Valley Ranch before the Ashida family had to leave. Kate McPhalan and Tommy Ashida had fallen in love, and both of their families were against it. David Ashida felt Tommy had shammed him and could no longer work there because of it, so he resigned and moved his family to his brother's home to work with him.
Carl Fitzgerald Morales is his last name, but he changed it, and Marian PcPhalan meets while in San Francisco and had a love affair. Marian moved there because Alex was seeking to better her music education and earn a scholarship to a college of her decision. Marian in return was struggling to establish her dream of being an artist. During this the last PcPhalan, Julian had run away from home because of his father Owen, who made him feel like he was worthless. He turned to drugs and working with clients to pay his drug addiction. Then he meets Alan, who changed his life around.
O'Connor centered this work around heartbreak and love interests. Tommy and Kate's relationship did not work out as she meets Carl while she is in college. Marian and Carl were together for a summer before Carl went someplace else and broke things off. Alex mentioned that Marian also had another affair because she felt like her mother was just using her. Julian had the worse off than everybody else right off to the very end. I was on the edge the whole time assuming that something else will happen or that Alex would spill a secret just because she could. If could I would read the other books in the trilogy.
One thing I did not like about this book is about the watermark, which is on each page and makes for a hard reading a couple of times. The words are in this pale black words with one bold that sometimes lines up just right with the sentence that makes it hard to read a word here or there. It did not happen all that frequent, but this is in pdf form so this whom choose a different form hopefully would not have to deal with this.
I rate this 4 out of 4 . I did not notice any spelling errors or any grammar errors. This would be recommend this to anyone who likes historical fiction and generational books mixed into one. One thing I do caution that this book this have an intimate aspect to it.
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American River: Tributaries
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