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Girl Well Read
Girl Well Read rated it 8 years ago
A special thank you to NetGalley and Random House for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.This book is told from the perspective of two narrators who are separated by nearly a century. It is 1975, and we meet single mother Lux Lysander, who lives paycheque to paycheque on one floor of a a three-...
Memories From Books on Booklikes
Memories From Books on Booklikes rated it 8 years ago
Chick lit meets science fiction in Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon. The facts of this story remind of an old story called Brigadoon. Both center upon a town that becomes visible and accessible only at certain times. Individuals from two time periods meet, and relationships begin. The concept is...
Ruined by Reading
Ruined by Reading rated it 9 years ago
Valley of the Moon tells the story of a single mother whose heart straddles two worlds. Lux lives in San Francisco with her son, Benno. When Benno goes back east to visit Lux’s mother and estranged father, she goes camping and happens on Greengage, a utopian society that is stuck in the early 1900s,...
Vellum Voyages
Vellum Voyages rated it 9 years ago
5 helms Please follow me on my blog :) Review originally posted on Vellum Voyages Wow! I was entranced from page one & I couldn’t stop reading! I was hooked! I walked around in a trance when I wasn’t reading & my mind constantly kept drifting off to Lux & Greengage as I wanted to get back to them ...
EpicFehlReader
EpicFehlReader rated it 11 years ago
I had high hopes for an interesting story but I wasn't super impressed with this one. The concept was a fun one but the execution came out a little dull for me. The one scene I did laugh at was the Cialis focus group (the husband in the story is in advertising). Is the whole world wondering about wh...
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