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Three identical triple girls are born to the lowest of the low in a small town area. There are different sections of town, of which the Hill is the most powerful and harbors all the high society. One of the Hill women called the Duchess can't have children and tries to buy the 3 triplets from their mother. The mother refuses. Her husband goes behind her back to talk to the lawyer sent from the Duchess. The mother has cunning and manages to save one child for herself.

The very beginning of the story is good and it only gets better over the years as the 3 girls get older and have children of their own. There is hatred and murder and plenty of action.

I picked the book up and was going to read half of it tonight. I just finished it ... at 12:30 a.m. !!
It's truly that good. It's a very well-written saga that ... if you're a reader and enjoy human history, family and histories, murders, power and more... you'll want to read. I very highly recommend this book and would give it more than 5 stars if I could.

Thanks, Timothy Patrick for the great read. (and, no, I don't know the author... lol)


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Tea Cups Tiger Claws Timothy Patrick 9780989354400 Books Reviews

I rarely give 5 stars for a rating, but this is just too good a story to downgrade for a couple of quibbles. The main quibble is that at first, I didn't like that the author had leapt over a decade here and a couple of decades there after the initial setting to get to the main story he really wanted to tell. But, you know, it just got too good after that to be bothered by the technique. The story is unique. (certainly to me) The characters were well-developed, and each of the 3 sisters turned out differently, even the two who were raised together. One was less believable than the other two, but not so much so that I couldn't see how she might have turned out the way she did. The ending was just a bit too tidy, but lots of thrilling action ensued in the last bit of the story, and these thrill rides always end up too neatly, no matter how good the author. The book did close with an announcement that seemed strange to me at first, but then I wondered whether I might actually get the point of the comment after all. I stretched out the read more than I often do with a good book, but that was to make the enjoyment last. Definitely worthwhile reading.
I am probably one of very few people in my demographic in the US who has not watched Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones and has not read the Song of Ice and Fire books. Still, much of it has somehow been absorbed into my pop culture subconscious, such as the fact that George R. R. Martin called Walter White a monster worse than anyone in Westeros. And while I know that there are some real doozies of monsters out there in fiction-land, I think Timothy Patrick's character Dorthea Railer could play ball with the worst of them.

Tea Cups & Tiger Claws follows three generations of women, starting with Elma Railer during World War I. Elma gives birth to identical triplets and allows two of them, Abigail and Judith, to be adopted by a duchess, but she keeps the third baby, Dorthea, for herself--presumably out of spite for the people trying to manipulate her into giving up all three of her children. The Railer family is, put simply, white trash, and everyone figures that Dorthea will end up just as bad as the rest of them. She doesn't. She ends up much, much worse. As Dorthea tries to claw her way to the top of Prospect Park society and find her place in the mansion on the hill, she creates her own little underworld, complete with drugs, secret dungeons, kidnapping, and a hefty dose of murder. Sucked into this mess are Abigail and Judith's daughters, good girl Sarah and party girl Veronic, and when Dorthea finally makes her grab for the high life, it's Sarah and Veronica who get caught in the flames.

This is very much a character-driven story, and really all of the characters are reflections of each other, showing what each could have become if things were just a little different. It's written in a mostly-linear fashion, broken up by great chunks of background info on places and people. Still, this exposition is written in such a flowing, fluid style that I didn't feel it bogged down the narrative at all, but instead made it even fuller and richer. The level of detail could have easily strayed into the territory of dull and lifeless, but instead left just enough to the imagination to keep me interested.

There were a few issues--some misplaced or misused words, some typos and rough grammar in a few areas, though not enough to be ruinous to the whole. The thing that bothered me most was part of the mystery I never felt was truly resolved. One of the characters leaves clues tot eh others that are meant to help stop Dorthea. While I am pretty sure I know who the helper is, it was never said outright, and the "how"s and "why"s of the aid are left somewhat in the dark. I really would have liked to see that fleshed out a bit more to add some more completeness to the story. Still, I could gather enough on my own, I guess, and the engaging characters and prose kept me going long after I should have been asleep on more than one night.

4.5 stars out of 5.
Patrick starts up with colorful and brilliant writing that brings Mark Twain to mind then seamlessly shifts gears into what I can only describe as Steinbeck East of Eden light as the multigenerational dynastic plot thickens, then he careens into a suspense thriller on a par with Dan Brown (but with status symbols) as the story fueled by revenge and love races through to the finish line. There is much to praise in the writer's technique deftly integrated cultural references to fashion and music, well drawn characters and eras with narration that subtly matches them. Patrick had me buckled into my seatbelt for the whole trip. I didn't even want to stop for bathroom breaks. I sure hope he will keep writing! I have a couple of quibbles however. One is that identical triplets, in my opinion would not have ended up so different from one another despite the separate upbringings. I can understand Judith and Dorthea, but not Abigail. Abigail and Judith both were raised in the same "nurture" environment but were unbelievably different from each other - more like fraternal twins. The other quibble is the cover design and title. Both led me to believe I would be reading a cozy murder mystery. This book is much more than that and deserves better.
Three identical triple girls are born to the lowest of the low in a small town area. There are different sections of town, of which the Hill is the most powerful and harbors all the high society. One of the Hill women called the Duchess can't have children and tries to buy the 3 triplets from their mother. The mother refuses. Her husband goes behind her back to talk to the lawyer sent from the Duchess. The mother has cunning and manages to save one child for herself.

The very beginning of the story is good and it only gets better over the years as the 3 girls get older and have children of their own. There is hatred and murder and plenty of action.

I picked the book up and was going to read half of it tonight. I just finished it ... at 1230 a.m. !!
It's truly that good. It's a very well-written saga that ... if you're a reader and enjoy human history, family and histories, murders, power and more... you'll want to read. I very highly recommend this book and would give it more than 5 stars if I could.

Thanks, Timothy Patrick for the great read. (and, no, I don't know the author... lol)