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Summary: Thought-provoker!
Review: Ms. Hannah grabbed my heart and then jerked it around in her hands until I was left wiped out on my bed and contemplating the holes in my own life. Best NOT read if your marriage is not what you dreamed it would be!
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Summary: A book full of laughter and tears
Review: As her daughter leaves for school in London, Annie's husband,Blake leaves for a younger woman. Solice is found by going home to Mystic, off the coast of Washington. Faced with finding a new life, Annie helps Isabel, a six year old daughter of an old love. Isabel, in her own mind, is trying to disappear to join her dead mother. Nick her father is falling into drinking. Through all the trials and sorrows, Annie realizes she has disappeared to herself. While looking at her daughter's baby pictures, she realizes as the mom she took the pictures, thus ignoring herself in her roll as wife and mom. Nothing is easy in self discover. Annie and Nick find " love matters.Maybe it's the only thing that does." Give yourself a great gift of this book. Enjoy the laughter and the tears. A box of tissues won't do, a roll of toilet paper as Susan Elizabeth Phillips said, is recommended.
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Summary: A beautiful tale
Review: ON MYSTIC LAKE is a very emotional contemporary mainstream work that focuses on second chances. The characters are for the most part warm and enchanting, though Blake seemed too self-centered especially when he expected Annie,s immediate return. However, it is the Olympic Peninsula that steals the show as Kristin Hannah shows her ability to provide a graphic picture of the area inside a wonderful tale. Kristin Hannah's star is on the rise due to her superb storytelling ability.Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A must-read book for every woman.
Review: I also read this book early and what a fabulous novel! My heart broke for Annie Colwater on page fifteen and by the end of the book I felt as if I had been living Annie's life right along with her. I cried, I smiled, and I fell in love all over again. It is so very real and human. Every single woman who reads this will ache through Annie's hard times, rejoice in her happiness, and be cheering her on by the end of the book. It is a novel for mothers, for daughters, for any woman who has ever loved. Do not miss this one. It is truly remarkable
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Summary: A must-read for everyone who believes in true love
Review: Accomplished author Kristin Hannah never disappoints, and with her hardcover debut, her talent reaches new heights. This book has a haunting sense of place, an endearing cast of characters, and a heart of pure gold. But don't take my word for it! Read for yourself. This is my mother's second-favorite author.
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Summary: A Fabulous Book!
Review: I was fortunate to receive a pre-publication copy of this book, and it is wonderful. I truly couldn't put it down. I grabbed my first tissue within the first ten pages. By the last third of the book, I'd given up on tissues and just pulled off long strips of toilet paper. BUT...it's that GREAT kind of crying, not the rip your guts out ugly kind. This book will please all of Kristin Hannah's romance fans as well as bringing her a new group of readers who gravitate more toward "women's fiction." A delicate path to walk, but Hannah pulls it off. I can't recommend On Mystic Lake highly enough.
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Summary: About Starting Over in Many Ways-Great Read! A++++!
Review: On Mystic Lake is another very hard-to-put down book! I truly enjoyed it from beginning to end.
Annelise, the main character of the story had a devastating blow when on the way home from dropping her daughter off at the airport for college, her husband says he wants a divorce. Blake told her he hasn't been in love with her for years, and that he'd been having an affair with Suzannah for a very long time.
Thrown into a deep depression of course over that awful news, Annilise returns to her home on Mystic Lake, where she grew up to her father's house. Her father provides the love and comfort , support she needs at this trying time, while Annilise is trying to figure out what to do. It doesn't take too long though, when gradually, she begins to take new steps in another direction. She meets up with Nick, an old love from high school. He and his 6-year-old daughter are terribly grief-stricken from the loss of his wife Kathy. His daughter hasn't spoken a single word since the loss of her mother, and Nick is becoming an alcoholic.
Nick needs someone in his life not only to help him recover, but moreso for his daughter. This is where Annilise steps in, watching Izzy for Nick, and yet at the same time, providing the child with a motherly figure, which she so desparately needs.
As time goes along in the story, Annilise falls deeply in love again with Nick. Gradually, he tries to overcome his battles with grief, and alcoholism, and his daughter Izzy, with a lot of help from Annilise starts to talk again. Things begint o take a wonderful turn, until Annilise is once again dealt another blow.
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Summary: Wonderful!!!
Review: This is my first book by Kristin Hannah. I'm not sure why I read this book, it's not my norm, but boy am I glad I did. This book was so engrossing I found myself reading it every chance I got. The characters were so vivid I felt like I knew them all.
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Summary: Pretty and honest
Review: This waa a romance I enjoyed becuase the characters seemed brought to life by a writer who chooses her words with care. The setting of the novel is delicately beautiful and I really wanted to meet Nick, Annie and Izzy, characters scarred but not permanently destroyed by life's pains and betrayals. This will linger in your imagination.
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Summary: Wonderful A++++
Review: This is the 2nd book I've read by Hannah and I am hooked! I love this book. I also went through a divorce and really sympathized with the character Annie. Shows how women gain strength after a terrible time in their life. You will laugh and cry but this book is a MUST read! Enjoy! Also Between Sisters is another GREAT book by Hannah! This is my new favorite author.
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