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Summary: Lovely book
Review: A highly enjoyable read, I daresay. I couldn't put it down. The author writes in a way that keeps you enraptured throughout the whole thing. Jane's character is likeable and easy to identify with, as Lucy's is almost the opposite, or at least she was to me. It has its faults, however...it was a little predictable, and it repeats itself in some parts...but it's definitely worth it. :)
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Summary: Latin Teacher Needs a Review
Review: This book is acceptable as a light, predictable mystery. The plot is familiar and the ending not at all a surprise. Jane Hudson, the main character, needs a more complex treatment in order to engage the reader's empathy. My primary irritation with this book was the author's occasional Latin errors (and there was also an English grammatical error). Although her quotations from Vergil were appropriate, she made occasional errors in Latin vocabulary and grammar. Surely a Vassar graduate and Latin major would proof her work more carefully!
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Summary: Too many words
Review: This book was far too long for its skimpy plot. It would have been much more compelling if it had been stripped down a bit. The characters were initially interesting, but as the book wore on and on (and on and on), their cookie cutter personalities were too thin to hold up the structure. Also, but setting this story in a relatively remote setting, the plot's secrets could be detected too soon.
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Summary: only one good thing about this book
Review: the only good thing about this book is the title. very predictable ending and if the main character fell down one more time, i think i would have screamed. where was the editor for this book?
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Summary: If you like Thomas Cook, and I do...
Review: I think you will like this book. It isn't a comparable type of narrative, although it is alike to some of Cook's works. It is difficult to compare a beginner to someone as prolific as Cook. There are thematic similarities to Tartt (will she ever write again) but the ambience, whether you can figure out the ending or not, is a lot like Cook or Rendell as Vine and that has more too do with the pleasure of reading this book than the different pleasure found in most procedural puzzles and the like.
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Summary: Started out fine, but then...
Review: I enjoyed this book until the last 100 pages or so. I thought the author went off on too many tangents and it got boring after a while. The last few chapters were completely ridiculous with all the coincidences and "surprises" in store for the major characters.
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Summary: Great Mystery
Review: I am not usually a reader of mystery or suspense type novels, but I had to write to say how much I enjoyed reading this one. I was intrigued by the boarding school, country setting. I enjoyed finding out secrets about each of the characters, one by one, throughout the novel. I felt that every page was a constant surprise -- and I enjoyed every minute!
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Summary: Publisher should not have compared novel to Secret History
Review: Comparing this novel to a Secret History was probably a mistake, setting a level of comparison that this novel did not achieve. Setting and plot sequence construction are imaginative and interesting, but story is overly melodramatic, farfetched, and repetitive. Good fiction needs to show and not tell. Ending also predictable.
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Summary: Good first try, but lacked in the main character
Review: The story revolves around a single mother who is a school teacher that returns to a private school that she went to as a student many years prior. While a student there, 3 of her friends died/suicided and resolving the current problems the past is resolved. I really enjoyed the writing in this book and the detailed description of the school, the ice, and the people except for the main character. I had a hard time caring about the main character and what happened to her, it was like the author just brought her along in the story having her remember things at convenient times, be around every problem, etc.
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Summary: What a DISAPPOINTMENT!
Review: I was so excited to get this book; it was compared to Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" - one of my all time favourites. The closest I can come to drawing a comparison is to say it's a very poor ripoff! It's not the worst book I've ever read, but to compare it to "The Secret History" was a hige mistake. Donna Tartt's book took 10 years to research and write...this book is mildly entertaining...but by no means a masterpiece of literature.
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