The prose was absolutely beautiful. The book could have easily been boring if her choice of vocabulary wasn't so poetic. I felt the pains of loneliness Sophie suffered through, and the longing that Joseph endured despite the chaos surrounding him and the rest of France. Although the ending broke ...
Short storyThis book is super small but I loved the cover so I gave it a go. I don't know what's happening in this book. It's kind of a ghost story and a story about a marriage that may be falling apart or may be intact because I couldn't tell at the end. And was there a threesome in this somehow? I...
I have no plans to write a long review of this short story since there isn't much to say about it. I just finished it after reading it now and then turning a couple of weeks, with the thought back in my mind that "I can't give up on a novella, it's a short thing I can do it!", but honestly it's a st...
I have no plans to write a long review of this short story since there isn't much to say about it. I just finished it after reading it now and then turning a couple of weeks, with the thought back in my mind that "I can't give up on a novella, it's a short thing I can do it!", but honestly it's a st...
Frances has just moved to Sydney from Melbourne with her new husband Charlie. Bewildered by the changes in her life she seeks comfort walking her dog along the winding city streets, taking in the scenery. On her walks she comes across a woman through a fence. Is the woman all she seems and will the ...
This is going to be a challenging book for people used to Santa Montefiore and books with predictable beginning/middle/ending to the narrative and the usual bland dialogues. The book makes more sense when one reads about the author's background as a Lonely Planet editor as fiction is woven with fact...
Read my full review: http://bit.ly/14aoruMOh my good Lord this book is boring. It is very rare I have nothing good to say about a book. This is one of those books though. The writing was dry. There were WAY too many characters. The majority of characters were one dimensional. I forced myself to fini...
While the writing is lovely, I could not stay interested enough in the story to finish it. I had the same problem with The Rose Grower by the same author and didn't realize it until today.
As other reviewers can point out, the actual mystery of the Hamilton Case takes up little room in this drawn out novel. Whoever wrote the synopsis on the back of the book did an excellent job of what this book could have accomplished. In re-reading that paragraph, I am sort of tempted to give it a h...
This was one that I really wanted to like, but I felt so distanced and remote from the story that it never really took hold. Grr. For the complete review, please go here:http://www.epinions.com/content_46582304388
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