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title: "Any Bitter Thing: A Novel"
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# Any Bitter Thing: A Novel

**Brand:** monica wood
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- **What is this?** Any Bitter Thing: A Novel by monica wood
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## Customer Reviews

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    Wished for more...
  

*by L***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2013*

I chose this selection for my BookClub because the plot was something I had not yet come across in my reading although this topic has been forefront in the news the past few years.Being a Catholic myself, I am well versed with church dogma and spent many years in the company of priests and nuns. This was a first time read for me by this author, so I had none of her other works to use as a comparison.Although the beginning drew me in, for some reason the novel did not keep riveted.I am not sure why. Perhaps it was the author's style of writing, it just seemed to me, that it took a long time to tell a simple story.This is a story filled with love, loss, forgiveness and the tenacity of family.Although the author spent lots of time developing Lizzie's character, I wish she had spent more time developing Father Mike's and Vivienne's. I wanted more about them and never really got it. I had questions for which I never got answers; what happens to Lizzie's and Father Mike's relationship? Andrea Harmon? Why no scene between Father Mike and Vivienne?...and a few others.I appreciated the plot twists in the later chapters, I didn't see all of them coming. This was an unexpected treat which woke me up long enough to finish the story.The story had lots of potential but I think the way it was written it never quite reached it.All in all, a sad tale with no real winners. All the characters were left hurt and broken.

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    Right, Wrong and Gray
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2014*

A tragic accident leads Wood's heroine, Lizzy,  back to her childhood. When Lizzy's parents died in a car accident, she is sent to live with her uncle, a priest at a small parish. The idyllic childhood years unfold setting the stage for the tragedies yet to come. After all, there is no longer fall than the one from an idyllic childhood. Post-accident Lizzy tries to piece together the events that led to her sudden removal from her uncle's charge. In Wood's intricately woven plot, we find out why only at the end when the story comes together like the pieces of Humpty-Dumpty's shell.Wood tells the story by alternating point of views between Lizzy and Father Mike. She takes readers into a  maelstrom of right and wrong as the story unfolds. Father Mike is as devoted to his church as any priest. Yet he is tempted. This dilemma coupled with Lizzy's recollections of her childhood build into a gripping story.With a cast of interesting characters, each one developed with the care of a precise writer, Wood crafts a story with masterful prose. The writing never falters as in this passage, "I spent seven years as Father Mike's child, a time delicate and fossilized, sweet as a paw print encased in amber, telling as a line on a cave wall."This book is worth reading not just for the superb prose and story telling, but because Wood forces readers to examine their understanding of right and wrong.  A great novel demands your attention long after you have finished it. That is exactly what Wood has accomplished in this fine novel.

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    Another Great Book by Monica Wood
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2015*

I am a big fan of author Monica Wood, even more so after meeting her at a book event.  This is the second of her books I've read that have a priest as a main character.  Her real uncle was a priest.  This book was another great story with wonderful characters. One of my favorite things about the book is that when it starts, Lizxy's marriage is in real trouble.  When the book ends, her marriage is probably stronger than it has ever been.  That is only one of the many surprises I found in this book.  I never anticipated any of them.  Some reviewers think that some of the events were too outlandish to be believed; however, I am not one of them.

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