by Anita Shreve
Unfortunately I didn't enjoy at all this book. The writing was doll and the main character was just a pain. The placement of this book was great, the mental images of the beach and the village were very beautiful. But the book was way to long. It needed to end somewhere in the meddle of it. I...
The beginning was slow, a little difficult to get through. After that I couldn't put it down.
As my two stars indicate, it was ok. Well-written, and the story was interesting enough to keep me reading... but just barely. I was frustrated with how Haskell and Olympia chose to deal with the shit hitting the fan, and I had a hard time getting over that, so that may be why I think it's only ok...
I associate Anita Shreve's books - deservedly or not - with dowdy true story TV movies. However, turning down a present would be a bit too snobbish.I must admit that I really felt for Olympia, a girl struggling with the strict rules of her era, the 19th century (Shreve did a nice job researching and...
I think I'm one of the ones in the minority here. I had a difficult time getting into the book at first -- perhaps if Olympia had been a couple of years older at least. A 40+ year old man and a 15 year old girl. Ew. That said, I just didn't see any real chemistry between the two, outside of the sexu...
Olympia Biddleford, 15, meets a 41 year old man who is both a husband and father and they have a disastrous affair.
I wanted to like this book. Really. But after a quarter of the way through it, it did nothing for me. I was used to Shreve's "The Pilot's Wife" and loved it, that this just seemed to be so dull. The characters put me to sleep. Each day or night reading this, my eyes got heavy with boredom. I s...
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