by Charles Frazier
I think this is a book that will resonate strongly with some and barely be worth the time of others. For me, it was perfectly okay. I never found myself particularly invested in the characters and I found the pacing to be much too slow to my liking, but I do understand that the pacing was setting ...
Set in a small town in North Carolina, Luce gets her sister's children after she is murdered. I had heard a lot of good things about Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, so I was excited when I won this from a Goodreads giveaway. But it has taken me quite awhile to read this, which is unusual for me si...
Obtained: Through Goodreads First Reads As soon as I read the first two pages of Nightwoods, I automatically knew that it was a book that is deep, mysterious, suspenseful, and just sucks you right in into the story. Nightwoods gave me tons of conflicting emotions, mainly with the abandoned children....
I love the characters this author creates and the ones in this book are no exception. Great, great read.
Luce never considered herself mother material, but she ends up as the sole caregiver to her newly orphaned nephew and niece, a pair of emotionally-disturbed twins. In this beautifully-crafted novel, Frazier tells the story of three broken souls who find each other and work to heal themselves. It's...
Luce is a young woman living alone away from the town, across the lake as caretaker in an old, empty Lodge. It is a lonely life, but it is safe and peaceful which is exactly what she needs after she fled town. Her peace is disrupted though when the two stranger children are brought to her house. Dol...
The story of three souls damaged by fellow human beings, trying to find their way to a safe place in the world. The Appalachian mountains set the background for love, betrayal, and the search for faith in humanity.
I am basing this review off two people reading this book, myself and my husband. Both of us found the book to be incredibly boring. My husband actually stopped reading the book, while I did finish it, but it was incredibly difficult to do so.
Nightwoods is a story that evokes emotion from the reader, both through the story itself and the authentic voice of the narrator. Luce is a woman who has been cast aside by society and by herself, left on the fringe. She comes to be the caretaker of her murdered sister’s twins and from here, the s...
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