Five Little Girls: The Quintland Sisters Review (ARC)

“At this very moment, I’m here. And so are you.”

First, I would like to say I was incredibly lucky to be given the opportunity to read an advanced copy of The Quintland Sisters by Shelley Wood in exchange for an honest review. I knew I wanted to read this book because, though I didn’t mention it to anyone except some family members, I actually grew up incredibly close to where the Dionne quintuplets (Yvonne, Annette, Marie, Cecile, and Emilie) were born, the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy, and so I’ve heard about them in passing my entire life. This includes seeing the old log cabin that was the family’s home turned into a museum in its former location for many years on the ride to school in North Bay. The museum is not currently open, but it is supposed to reopen this year in a new location, and I hope to get the chance to visit it when I am visiting my parents. I also have driven many times on the highway built into a major highway (for the North) rather being kept as an old country road solely due to the tourism the Dionne quintuplets brought to the area.

But before I keep talking about all of that, I’d like to focus back on the book The Quintland Sisters and what I thought of this presentation of their story.

Cold As Ice: Forty Words For Sorrow Review

“Take a drive up Airport Hill at four o’clock on a February afternoon, and when you come back half an hour later the streets of the city will glitter below you in the dark like so many runways.”

I decided I wanted to read Forty Words For Sorrow by Giles Blunt because when I was home for the holidays, I kept seeing a commercial on television about a show called Cardinal based on this book series by a Canadian author. Being I am into mystery, I decided to look into it and discover the author grew up in North Bay, where I did, and the show was also filmed in North Bay (as my mother informed me). So needless to say, I was excited about not only finding Canadian content that interested me, but content closely connected to my personal roots.