Rating: 
Summary: Banal repeat performance
Review: Trudging through this book was like re-reading Ms. Graham's first book, "Firebird", which I also rated 1 star. Both books are so similar that I frequently got momentarily confused and wondered if the characters in "Sarah's Window" were the same ones from "Firebird."What's so wrong with this book (and Firebird, as well)? First of all, the characters are dull, flat, lifeless. They possess no special quirkiness or fallibility. They lack personality. I never understood what John did - he's a mathmetician/physicist? Why? What purpose does he serve? He is so agonizingly dull, I can't imagine why Sarah or Susan would be interested in him romantically. Sarah doesn't seem that special, either, even though she's the title character. So, she's creative. SO, she's an artist. I just wasn't swept away by the supposed magnificance of her work. Ms. Graham's two books, Firebird and Sarah's Window are nearly identical in story themes. In each story, the main male character thinks he's in love with his current significant other, only to run into a new woman and immediately fall for her. The male is moral and upright, yet has an affair with the woman. There's always a death caused by a natural event - fire or flood. And Ms. Graham seems to think it vital to her stories to flaunt her French by having part of the story take place in France. Yawn. Oh, and let's not forget the sappy, syrupy ending. This story is poorly constructed, unoriginal and simply trite.
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