by Francesca Segal
Man, am I oblivious! At no point in this story did I make a connection to The Age of Innocence, on which it is based. In my defense, I read A of I a million years ago and I hardly remember what I read last week. The author moves the action from NYC to London. The characters live in a tight Jewish co...
Run of the mill pre-wedding jitters which brings nothing new to the usual third party plot. It reads fine but it is really hard to be excited by it or care for the characters. They feel bloodless. M
Thank you to Hyperion Books for my early copy of The Innocents!'The Innocents' is a story which delves into a man's pre-wedding fears and how he wavers between doing what he knows is right and what his heart is telling him. The story which is fashioned after Edith Wharton's 'The Age of Innocence' is...
Don't be put off by my three-star rating. The writing is superb. Quite stunning, really, for a first novel. It's just one of those stories in which very little occurs, aside from the dailiness of life in a wealthy, tightly-knit community. This novel is modeled after Edith Wharton's The Age of Innoce...
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