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Summary: Another page-turner by Anita Shreve
Review: This apparently is Ms. Shreve's first book and is excellent. I highly recommend ALL of her books; they do not disappoint.
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Summary: Extremely Slow Reading
Review: This book was not very captivating at all...it was extremely slow reading. Half way through the book I wasn't even sure what, exactly, it was about. Plus, the ending became very predictable about two-thirds into the book. I actually skipped about 50 pages just to be finished with the thing. I wouldn't recommend it.
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Summary: Extremely Slow Reading
Review: This book was not very captivating at all...it was extremely slow reading. Half way through the book I wasn't even sure what, exactly, it was about. Plus, the ending became very predictable about two-thirds into the book. I actually skipped about 50 pages just to be finished with the thing. I wouldn't recommend it.
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Summary: Now I've read all of Shreve's books and this is the best!
Review: This is another great book. It's right up there with Hoffman and Quindlen. I picked it up and didn't put it down until I finished. Worth the time.
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Summary: Eden Close
Review: This is another winner by Anita Shreve. Though not complex, it is an interesting read and I didn't want to put it down until I finished. I like happy endings too!
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Summary: Not Shreve's Best Work
Review: This is the fifth book by Ms. Shreve that I've read in the last year and a half. Although I like her writing style and her ability to construct a very vivid scene with interesting characters, I felt that this book just fell flat. It has an air of mystery but I predicted the outcome very early on. Andrew comes back to his hometown for his mother's funeral at the beginning of the book. From there the story weaves it way back to the past. We find out about Andrew and his childhood friend (and next door neighbour)Eden Close and the relationship that existed between them. We learn that Eden was adored by her father and ignored by her mother. We soon discover that there was more going on in that house and that it all culminates in a murder on a hot summer's night, the night that the beautiful Eden loses her sight. The mystery is never fully solved and so when Andrew does return home many years later, he feels he cannot leave without finding out the truth about Eden and what happened on that fateful night. It's an okay story but I found it slow to read. It just didn't grab my attention. I will however continue to read Shreve's other works, I just won't re-read this one.
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Summary: I didnt want it to end
Review: This is the second book of Ms. Shreve's that I have read. I really like her writing style, which tends to swing towards the poetry side. This really draws the reader into the novel.
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Summary: Eden Close - Anita Shreve
Review: This was definitely a unique storyline, and I found it refreshing and interesting. However, I did not feel an urgency to finish this book. I put it down several times and was never in much of a rush to get back into it. Anita Shreve created an interesting plot, however depressing it was at each turn of the page. Eden's story is tragic, and the many "surprises" were not really hard to figure out long before they were brought into the open. An interesting read, but predictable and tragic.
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Summary: you won't be able to put it down
Review: This was the first book of hers i read and i found it to be very excellant, i wasn't able to put it down, i finished this book in 3 days it was so good. I also read RESISTANCE which was a bit slow at first but the further i got the harder it was to quit reading. Plus i read THE WEIGHT OF WATER which was another very excellent book. i am now reading THE PILOTS WIFE which is also very good. I find that Anita Shreve is a very good author as soon as you finish one of her books you'll be running out to get another one of her books, she is an excellant author. I plan to read STRANGE FITS OF PASSION and WHERE OR WHEN. Trust me her books are worth buying.
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Summary: A FIRST RATE DEBUT NOVEL...
Review: This, the author's debut novel, is a well crafted, fictional work that keeps the reader turning its pages. The book is premised upon unfinished business in the past that needs closure, before the future can begin anew. Here, Andrew, a divorced man in his mid thirties, returns home to the upstate New York town in which he grew up, in order to attend his mother's funeral and take care of her estate. Being there, in his childhood home, brings back memories of a night, half a lifetime ago, in which his neighbor's home reverberated with the sound of gunfire, forever changing the life of his childhood friend and neighbor, Eden Close. Adopted by Jim and Edith Close after being left in a box on their doorstep shortly after her birth, Jim lavished love and a great deal of physical affection on Eden, while Edith always remained strangely aloof from this beautiful child whom she seemed to view as an intrusion in their lives. Eden, friends with Andrew while growing up, was blinded in the terrible tragedy which engulfed her home one night and saw Jim Close killed. Withdrawing from the world at large, she remained a virtual recluse in her adoptive mother's home, while Andrew got on with his life, went to college, and left home. In returning for his mother's funeral, Andrew sets about trying to unravel the mystery that has enshrouded Eden since that terrible night. The author gives the reader glimpses into the past through a series of flashbacks, which show the bittersweet relationship that Andrew and Eden had shared when younger, a bond which to this day had remained unbroken. It is this unspoken bond that prompts Andrew to try and bring Eden out of her reclusive state. It is an attempt that is to have great ramifications for all. The author weaves a seamless tapestry that fully engages the reader. It is a haunting and beautifully rendered story that will leave the reader eagerly awaiting the author's next book.
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