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Summary: an excellent book .
Review: quick, easy reading that makes you not want to put the book down! you read from past to present throughout the book and it keeps you wanting to find out more!
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Summary: Another fantastic Shreve!
Review: Rarely do I follow authors, but I follow Anita Shreve. Her writing style flows like water; images, the past and the present intertwine to create feelings, intrique, pain and joy. Her characters do not live on the page - they appear to you, bit by bit, until you cannot shake them - and do not want to. Highly recommended for spiritual, enlightened women.
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Summary: Eden Close
Review: Shreve did a magnificent job detailing a man's journey to truth. The book was a great look into a life.
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Summary: Romantic Regret - Shreve does it best
Review: Shreve is a master romantic regret! Lose yourself in the waters of emotional regret over lost love. One of her first fiction books. The Last Time They Met and Where or When also follow this same theme. Brilliant storytelling.
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Summary: A tragedy - a revelation of what went before, and after.
Review: The author enables you to walk through the door and into the rather mundane lives of individuals whose common past links them together in ways that are both sad and touching. The author sensitively reveals complex emotions that guide and direct the actions of people living their lives one day at a time. Shades of gray are everywhere. The reader's interest is heightened by the revelation of previously undisclosed facts,then is peaked further when even more "secrets" are revealed. Subtle clues, quietly inserted in sentences of simple dialogue, keep one reading far into the night. I liked the undercurrents that ran throughout the book, and the subdued display of feelings which were carefully displayed by the various characters. This was the first book by Anita Shreve I have read. I am rushing to the local library to search for other books by this author!!
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Summary: A disappointing read after reading the Pilot's Wife.
Review: The book was sluggish, lacking substance. Couldn't hold a candle to the "Pilot's Wife". The story line was predictable. However, as usual, with Ms. Shreves' character introductions, the characters were well developed, apparent, and clearly defined!:), hence the 2 star rating.
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Summary: A Wonderful Book the Second Time Around!
Review: The first book I read by Anita Shreve was Where or When. The year was 1993 and I came across this book while browsing at the library. I remember thinking when I closed this book that this title was the book, which deserved all the praise or at least sales that Bridges of Madison County was receiving at the time. I thought the book Where or When better written in comparison to Bridges and that Eden Close had a more intriguing plot as well as a chilling outcome. After reading Where or When I went back and read Shreve's earlier books, Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion and then Resistance. I remember thinking that Anita Shreve was one of the most overlooked new writers of that time. Then a woman named Oprah selected Shreve's book The Pilot's Wife for her television book group and overnight, one of my favorite authors became a household name. And her succeeding books, Fortune's Rock, The Weight of Water, The Last Time We Met and her latest title Sea Glass continue to illustrate why Shreve's books are such rich reading experiences. Now that I have read all of this author's books at least once I gave some thought to rereading some of her books. But it wasn't until one of my online book groups selected Close, Shreve's first novel, that I actually picked up this book and began reading it for the second time. I did wonder what I would think about a book I read close to ten years ago and one that I remembered enjoying so much that I always recommended it to others looking for a good book. I am happy to say that my second reading of the book Eden Close if anything has improved with age. The plot of this book, the characters and descriptive passages glued me to my seat once again. I found the subject matter continues to be as relevant today as it was when it was first published and the lives of the characters still as heartbreaking. And as Shreve does with all of her books, this time she puts you smack into this midwestern town where within two farm homes side by side we watch innocent lives torn apart by an unspeakable tragedy. If you have enjoyed Anita Shreve with her more recent books, be sure and go back and read her earliest novels like Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion and Where or When and see why I considered Anita Shreve a favorite author before she was as popular as she is today.
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Summary: not your usual mystery novel
Review: The setting of this story includes two farmhouses, side-by-side, but remote from anything else. The families living in them, each two parents and a child, are so different from each other yet unable to be completely separate because of geography. In the middle of the night, a scream and a shot ring out from one house, and both families are changed forever. This novel is a lovely bit of writing with a little flavour of a mystery novel thrown in. I like Shreve's conservative, contained writing style, and her characters are all quite realistic. A few parts dragged just a little, which is why I didn't give it a higher rating, but overall this novel doesn't disappoint.
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Summary: In the dark velvet of night....
Review: the shouting, the gunshots reverberate in Andrew's brain. Out here in the country there are only the two houses. The one in which he lives with his parents and the one where Eden lives with hers. His father grabs his gun and runs to the other house as he and his mother slowly make their way though the darkness. From that night on the idyllic childhood life Andrew and Eden shared is gone. Eden has been raped, shot and blinded. Her father is dead and the screaming sirens of police and ambulance pierce the night air, forever changing the future that might have been. Andrew, now divorced, returns to his childhood home to bury his mother and revisits, in his memory, his youth and life before and after that horrific night. He does all this while the shadowy figure of Eden is ever-present in the upstairs window of her house 'seeing' as only blindness can see. Ms. Shreve writes a sensitive and searching novel. Her prose is a vehicle which transports us to the innermst thoughts and yes, deep into the souls of Andrew and Eden, their mothers and fathers and all those that the darkness of that night engulfed. For a wonderful story and a journey you won't easily forget, set aside the time to enjoy the first of many splendid novels by this prolific author.
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Summary: Captivating
Review: This Anita Shreve novel was captivating, titilating and a quick read. Your really feel the emotion of the main characters Andy and Eden. I was totally sucked into the tangled web!!
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