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Summary: Rather enjoyed this book
Review: It was refreshing to see Scarlett finally grow up. Too many times in 'Gone with the Wind' I wanted to slap her silly for being such a pampered, spoilt brat. In 'Scarlett' though she matures into a headstrong but likeable woman, still determined to do things her way and succeeding at it. Several interesting characters are introduced and loose ends from 'Gone with the Wind' are tied up. All in all, a satisfying read.
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Summary: Scarlett : The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the W
Review: One would think that a sequel to Gone With the Wind would be great, but that individual would be wrong. Gone With the Wind is my favorite book, so I was so excited when my mom notified me there was a sequel. I found the sequel to be a great disappointment. Although it carries on right where Gone With the Wind ends, Scarlett seems to be a COMPLETELY different character. Of course, after her experiences she would be a changed person, but I felt that Alexandra Ripley took her change to an extreme.
As well as being disappointed by the character portrayal, I also felt that the ending to the book was inappropriate after how Margaret Mitchell finished. Well, I guess I shouldn't give it away, but overall I felt that this sequel ruined the emotion created in the original version.
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Summary: Boring!
Review: I couldn't even get into it. I read Gone With The Wind in 2 days because I couldn't put it down. I read other Alexandra Ripley books and they were much better. Perhaps she tried too hard...
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Summary: It wasn't bad, just different.
Review: Like many other readers, I was left hanging when I finished Gone with the Wind? When I found out there was a sequel I was ecstatic. Scarlett is more focused on Rhett and Scarlett's relationship. Gone with the Wind was stronger on the outcome of the South after the Civil War. If you like something romantic, then you should read Scarlett. Its a good continuation, but it's different. Also, it occured to me before I checked Scarlett out that would an author different then the orignal Margaret Mitchell dare write something annihilating to the characters from Gone with the Wind? Figure it out for yourself. It wasn't hard to guess what was going to happen in Scarlett (such as the baby...) But if you're dying to know the end of the story, read it, because I don't think you will be disappointed.
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Summary: Check carefully the reviews before purchasing this sequel
Review: This book has been probably the biggest literary disappointment I've ever had. How come they let it even be published? I sincerely have to say that the inheritors of the copyrights to Gone With The Wind have sacrificed something almost sacred in the eyes of millions of fans in the altar of greed!! I really don't blame it on Alexandra Ripley, she was asked for her version of it and they had a limit time. She did a correctly written book, but that's the best I can say about it. A sequel by definition must be true to the most basic lines in plot and characterization. "Scarlet" is strange in the eyes of any reader of GWTW. Scarlet O'Hara suddenly loses her spirit and recklessness, and is just kind of self conscious, boring and coward, escaping to other continent of all things. She leaves her children, family, Ashley, Rhett and Tara; everything she has striven for! Very far-fetched. The book is also filled with a lot of new characters that have nothing to do with the GWTW universe. I think this particular story could have worked much better if Ripley had made Scarlet hit her head and have amnesia. In the light of the many a contrived event described in the book, this would have explained a lot of stuff. I don't want to even start with Rhett. It breaks my heart to see what she does with the most breathtaking and exciting male character a writer could have ever imagined. Read my lips: A WASTE. I want to believe this book never existed. I sincerely hope for somebody else writing a good sequel pretty please. It does not need to be more than 50 pages. It really doesn't have to be 900 pages to prove it is right!
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Summary: Scarlett, or, "How to get a personality makeover"
Review: I bought this book hoping to read the continuation of not only Scarlett's life, but also all the other characters. Ashley-- how would he get along without his wife? How would Beau and Wade and Ella turn out? What about all the Clayton County folks and would she reconcile with the Atlanta Old Guard?
In this I was sadly disappointed. The "original" characters that helped shape GWTW make cameo appearances. Pitty is spoken of, but never appears, and India, the Tarletons, and the Merriwethers, to name a few, are given brief appearances at best. Tony Fontaine comes back from Texas, is devoted to for a couple of pages, and then departs, leaving me with a here-they-are-now-they're-gone feeling. Only the Charleston Aunts have a major role. By the first few pages, Ripley has severed any chance of Scarlett's reconciliation with the Old Guard, and by the first half of the book is over, has done away completely with the original GWTW supporting characters and come up with her own for the rest of the book. It was really hard for me to care about Scarlett's Irish family characters and what happened to them, they seemed too underdeveloped, and I felt a little lost when Rhett would materialize out of nowhere and then vanish. It's not a real meal like GWTW was, it's only a snack, and I think that since GWTW took 7 yrs to write, if a little more time had been spent on Scarlett I thought it could be a lot better. And did they really have the saying "when pigs fly" in the 1870's??
Not only did I want to find out what would happen to Scarlett and Rhett, but I also wanted to see if all the supporting characters that made GWTW the great book it was would recover and have a brighter future, as well. In that the book is sadly lacking. I wish I'd checked this out at the library, because for me this was a one-time read.
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Summary: absolutely breathtaking
Review: I myself am a hopeless romantic. From the 1st page untill the last, I couldn't stop reading. GWTW is a classic that left me wanting more. But like most sequeals, I was afraid that Alexandra Ripley would not do it justice. I was dead wrong. She brought back life to the characters. She gave Scarlett the ultimate challenge that she needed... to find herself and to be happy with herself, to not be ashamed of who she was. Ultimately to become a woman.
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Summary: A sequel? Or just another story?
Review: Based on its own merit, Scarlett is an engaging tale. Its characters are well developed, the settings are described in enough detail that one can picture it clearly and the story moves quickly with plenty of action and romance. But while Ripley's style of writing is somewhat reminiscent of Mitchell's in GWTW, she takes the story that Mitchell created in an entirely different direction. As a sequel it is improbable, with the characters behaving in ways I'm sure Mitchell would never have imagined. I loved GWTW and read Scarlett in anticipation of an equally great novel. While Scarlett is a good read and one I would recommend to anyone searching for that fairy-tale ending, it doesn't remain true to GWTW and is almost better considered an unrelated story that simply has characters that share the same name as Mitchell's GWTW.
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Summary: A Little Too Windy
Review: I was very happy to have a sequel to GWTW, but this book left much to be desired. There was such a long winded tale just to find out if Scarlett gets her man. I especially didn't like the ending it left me wanting more. There was not much development on the relationship between Scarlett and Rhett so the way their relationship ends was too sudden and abrupt. It is a very good read if you are not looking for GWTW but that is the purpose of reading this book. It may be that my expectations were too high, I was very excited after reading GWTW and was very much looking forward to finding out how it ends. I have to say I was somewhat disappointed.
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Summary: Major Letdown
Review: I was so excited to read Scarlett after reading Gone with the Wind. I couldn't bear the unhappy ending in GWTW and rushed right out to get Scarlett. The book began good enough. Scarlett was still a headstrong and willful woman, but when she left Atlanta the book went downhill. I couldn't believe that Scarlett would abandon her family and that she would ever abandon her beloved Tara. That was her mainstay in GWTW, but not in this book. I managed to get through the entire book just to get to the happy ending, but at a cost to my personal images and feelings towards Scarlett and Rhett. I was disappointed in the way Ripley portrayed Scarlett and Rhett. Rhett, the best character and most complex, was barely seen in the novel. And the storyline while Scarlett was in Ireland was a bit too far-fetched for me. It just wasn't believable that Scarlett had changed all that much. I give Ripley credit for attempting a sequel, it is definitely no easy task, considering the quality of Mitchell's lushly descriptive and entertaining novel. But overall, it was a huge letdown with disappointments in the character development and portrayals and in the plot.
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